Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;
for the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches2
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 68:27There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.
leads to
Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing…
Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.
Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.
Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.
Through
Genesis 49:27Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
leads to
That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
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