His birth took place on tour between Bethel and Ephrath, characterized later by Christian writers when at the short few feet away from either Bethlehem, because many centuries late a prophet Micah referred to "Bethlehem Ephrata", There is no more connection sustaining Bethlehem. His mother died inside returning him birth, & by owning her survive breath known as him Ben-oni, "son of my pain", an ill-doomed title which was changed by his father into Benjamin. His posterity were a tribe of Benjamin, sometimes translated "Benjamites" (Gen. 49:27; Deut. 33:12; Joshua 18:21).

A tribe of Benjamin at a Exodus was the smallest however of these (Num. 1:36, 37; Ps. 68:27). In a period of the march its place was along by owning Manasseh and Ephraim on the west of the tabernacle. At a entrance into Canaan it counted 45,600 warriors. It has been inferred by a bit of from either a words of Jacob (Gen. 49:27) that the figure of a wolf was on the tribal standard: "Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he shall devour the prey, at evening he shall divide the spoil."

This tribe is mentioned around Rom. 11:1; Phil. 3:5.

A inheritance of this tribe lay immediately in the south of that of Ephraim, & was astir Twenty-six miles around length and Dozen inside breadth. Its eastern boundary was a Jordan. Dan intervened between it and a Philistines. Its principal towns come known as around Josh. 18:21-28.

the history of the tribe contains the sad record of a desolating civil war in which it were engaged sustaining a more eleven tribes; they were just about annihilated (Judg. 20:20, Twenty-one; 21:10). (Watch GIBEAH ¯T0001476.)

A number one king of the Jews was Saul, a Benjamite. The close alliance was formed between this tribe & that of Judah in the time of David (2 Sam. 19:16, 17), which continued fallowing his dying (1 Kings 11:13; 12:20). When a Exile these two tribes formed a low body of a Jewish united states (Ezra 1:5; 10:9), & to this day a more decade come known as a lost tribes of Israel.

A tribe of Benjamin was celebrated for its archers (1 Sam. 20:20, 36; 2 Sam. 1:22; 1 Chr. 8:40; 12:2) and slingers (Judges 20:6).

A gate of Benjamin, on the n side of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13; 38:7; Zech. 14:10), was thus known as because it led in the counsel of the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. These are known as by Jeremiah (20:2) "the high gate of Benjamin"; too "the gate of the children of the people" (17:19). (Comp. Ii Kings 14:13.) Reference
''Easton's Bible Lexicon'', 1897.