H1144G–בִּנְיָמִין–bin.ya.min

And the people of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until the evening; and they inquired of the LORD, "Shall we again draw near to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites?" And the LORD said, "Go up against them."

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

So the people of Israel came near against the Benjaminites the second day.

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And Benjamin went against them out of Gib'e-ah the second day, and felled to the ground eighteen thousand men of the people of Israel; all these were men who drew the sword.

בִנְיָמִ֨ן׀ vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

and Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we yet again go out to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites, or shall we cease?" And the LORD said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will give them into your hand."

בִנְיָמִ֥ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the people of Israel went up against the Benjaminites on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gib'e-ah, as at other times.

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the Benjaminites went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and as at other times they began to smite and kill some of the people, in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gib'e-ah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.

בִנְיָמִן֙ vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the Benjaminites said, "They are routed before us, as at the first." But the men of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

בִנְיָמִ֔ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel; and the men of Israel destroyed twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin that day; all these were men who drew the sword.

בִּנְיָמִן֮ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”בְּבִנְיָמִן֙ (בִנְיָמִן֙) vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

So the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the men in ambush whom they had set against Gib'e-ah.

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”לְבִנְיָמִ֔ן (בִנְיָמִ֔ן) vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite and kill about thirty men of Israel; they said, "Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle."

וּבִנְיָמִ֡ן (בִנְיָמִ֡ן) vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.

בִּנְיָמִ֑ן bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Cutting down the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gib'e-ah on the east.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.

מִבִּנְיָמִ֔ן (בִּנְיָמִ֔ן) bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

מִבִּנְיָמִ֗ן (בִּנְיָמִ֗ן) bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the men of Israel turned back against the Benjaminites, and smote them with the edge of the sword, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns which they found they set on fire.

בִנְיָמִן֙ vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin."

לְבִנְיָמִ֖ן (בִנְיָמִ֖ן) vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.

בִּנְיָמִ֖ן bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

בִנְיָמִ֔ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Ja'besh-gil'ead; but they did not suffice for them.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן (בִנְיָמִ֑ן) vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

מִבִּנְיָמִ֖ן (בִּנְיָמִ֖ן) bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And they said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן (בִנְיָמִ֑ן) vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters." For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin."

לְבִנְיָמִֽן׃ (בִנְיָמִֽן) vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”