And it happened, when her soul was going forth (for she died) even she called his name Son of Sorrow [Ben-oni]. But his father called him Son of the Right [Benjamin].
The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my offspring, to the limit of everlasting hills; may they be for the head of Joseph and for the crown of the leader of his brothers.
All these were the tribes of Israel, two and ten. And this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, each manwith what was according to his blessing, he blessed them.
On account of this a lion out of the forest shall strike them; a wolf of the desert shall destroy them; a leopard is watching over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn, because their transgressions are many; their apostasies are numerous.
A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing prey. They have devoured souls and they have taken the riches and gems. They multiplied her widows in her midst.
Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ house, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
Behold, the people shall rise like a lioness and as a lion he shall lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.
And Benjamin came out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day, and again destroyed to the earth eighteen thousand men of the sons of Israel; all these were drawers of sword.