H1144G–בִּנְיָמִין–bin.ya.min

And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even; and they asked of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I again draw nigh to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?' And the LORD said: 'Go up against him.'

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

בִנְיָמִ֨ן׀ vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days--saying: 'Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?' And the LORD said: 'Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him int

בִנְיָמִ֥ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the field, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, abou

בִנְיָמִן֙ vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the children of Benjamin said: 'They are smitten down before us, as at the first.' But the children of Israel said: 'Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.'

בִנְיָמִ֔ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men; all these drew the sword.

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

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten. And the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.--

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

And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said: 'Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.'

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

But when the beacon began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.

בִּנְיָמִ֑ן bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

They inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and overtook them at their resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

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

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

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

And the men of Israel turned back upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found; moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

בִנְיָמִן֙ vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying: 'There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.'

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

And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said: 'There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

בִּנְיָמִ֖ן bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto 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 Jabesh-gilead; and yet so they sufficed them not.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

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

Then the elders of the congregation said: 'How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?'

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

And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

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

Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters.' For the children of Israel had sworn, saying: 'Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.'

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

And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying: 'Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”