We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Psalm 68:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in a body, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, The princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There is little Benjamin in the lead [in the procession], the princes of Judah and their company, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. American Standard Version (1901) There is little Benjamin their ruler, The princes of Judah and their council, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. Common English Bible There’s Benjamin leading them, though he’s little; then the princes of Judah, their speaker; then the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali. Catholic Public Domain Version For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. |
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Abner also spoke directly to the Benjaminites; then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin were ready to do.
Of the Benjaminites, the kindred of Saul, three thousand, of whom the majority had continued to keep their allegiance to the house of Saul.
David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it.
Ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer of Anathoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the Lord.
The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted.
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.
The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart; the hostility of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be hostile toward Ephraim.
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and who came forth from the loins of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth or right.
The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites struck down twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin that day, all of them armed.
Zebulun is a people that scorned death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.
Saul answered, “I am only a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel, and my family is the humblest of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin. Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”