Genesis 49:27

Modern English Version

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, and at night he divides the spoil.”

Cross References

Genesis 35:18

As her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

Genesis 46:21

The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Genesis 49:26

The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of my fathers, up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was set apart from his brothers.

Genesis 49:28

These are all the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, each with the blessing appropriate to him.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them, and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them; a leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings have increased.

Ezekiel 22:25

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls. They have taken the treasure and precious things. They have made many widows in her midst.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to obtain dishonest gain.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Numbers 1:36

Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,

Numbers 23:24

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness, and lifts himself up as a lion; it shall not lie down until it eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.”

Numbers 34:21

of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Kislon;

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Acts 20:29

For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will enter among you, not sparing the flock.

Acts 8:3

But Saul ravaged the church, entering house by house and dragging out both men and women and committing them to prison.

Acts 9:1

Saul, still breathing out threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

Deuteronomy 33:12

Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord will dwell in safety by Him, and the Lord will protect him all day long; he will dwell between His shoulders.

Philippians 3:5

I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and a Hebrew of Hebrews; as concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Judges 20:21

Then the Benjamites came out from Gibeah and struck twenty-two thousand men of Israel down to the ground.

Judges 20:25

And on the second day, the Benjamites went out from Gibeah to meet them and again struck eighteen thousand men down to the ground, every one of them armed.