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- noun Plural form of
Benjaminite .
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Examples
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In the first repetition, the Israelites act as Benjamin's agents, stealing the virgins of Jabesh Gilead; [28] in the second repetition, the Benjaminites are authorized to steal their wives for themselves and promised immunity from retribution.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Benjaminites, the tribes of Israel almost wipe out one of their constituent members.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Benjaminites to folding them into a fantasy of national similitude, Equiano's practice shifts from one of self-mutilation to a performance of imperial self-consolidation.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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And second, the tribes make it possible for the Benjaminites to steal and rape two hundred more women from Shiloh.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Judges 19 in which the Benjaminites, figured by Milton as the sons of Belial, demand that an old man from
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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In response, the Levite cuts the body of his wife into twelve pieces and sends a piece to each of the tribes of Israel as a call to arms against the Benjaminites.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Benjaminites, but it also instantiates a series of repeated sexual crimes.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Israel and the renegade Benjaminites that points to an allegorical unification not only of Christian believers, but also of ethnically distinct peoples in the emergent British nation.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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If any of you are mindful to examine history, you will find that war came, that the destruction was terrible, and more, you will find that the Benjaminites escaped.
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild
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Benjaminites: will the son of Jesse give every one of you also fields and vineyards?
The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867
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