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  • noun Plural form of Benjamite.

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  • From the Old Testament it even appears that the Benjamites were the most “pagan” of all the Tribes—actually a source of friction with the others—worshiping a goddess who could easily have been assimilated to Diana in later times.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • From the Old Testament it even appears that the Benjamites were the most “pagan” of all the Tribes—actually a source of friction with the others—worshiping a goddess who could easily have been assimilated to Diana in later times.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • From the Old Testament it even appears that the Benjamites were the most “pagan” of all the Tribes—actually a source of friction with the others—worshiping a goddess who could easily have been assimilated to Diana in later times.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The particular appeal of the Benjamites was a necessary policy; their tribe enjoyed the honor of giving birth to the royal dynasty of Saul; they would naturally be disinclined to lose that prestige.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • They appear in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War and in the Old Testament, which enumerates the casualties of King David's wars, including 360 Benjamites, 18,000 Edomites and 22,000 Arameans of Damascus.

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  • They triumph in the circumstance that these words are not to be found in any one of the prophets; just as they do in the idea that Rachel weeping for the Benjamites at Ramah has no reference whatever to the massacre of the innocents by Herod.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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