and we answered my lord, “We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.”
Numbers 1:36 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The descendants of Benjamin: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Of the children 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 that were able to go forth to war; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go to war: American Standard Version (1901) Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; Common English Bible There were the descendants of Benjamin, registered by their clans and their households. The men 20 years old and above eligible for military service were recorded by name. Catholic Public Domain Version Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families, and the houses of their kinships, having been counted by the names of each one, from twenty years and above, of all who were able to go forth to war, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, |
and we answered my lord, “We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.”
Benjamin’s sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Benjamin is a wolf; he tears his prey. In the morning he devours the prey, and in the evening he divides the plunder.’
from Benjamin, Eliada, a valiant warrior, and two hundred thousand with him armed with bow and shield;
12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 sealed from the tribe of Benjamin.
On that day the Benjaminites mobilised twenty-six thousand armed men from their cities, besides seven hundred fit young men rallied by the inhabitants of Gibeah.