H1144G–בִּנְיָמִין–bin.ya.min

The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

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

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

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? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.

בִנְיָמִ֥ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

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”

The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

בִנְיָמִן֙ vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.

בִנְיָמִ֔ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one 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 struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.

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

The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

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

But when the cloud 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 the sky.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.

בִּנְיָמִ֑ן bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

They enclosed the Benjamites round about, [ergänzt: and] chased them, [ergänzt: and] trod them down at [ergänzt: their] resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [ergänzt: were] men of valor.

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

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [ergänzt: were] men of valor.

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

The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck 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 to Benjamin as wife.

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

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”

The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

בִנְיָמִ֔ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

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 weren't enough for them.

בִּנְיָמִן֙ bin.ya.Min “Benjamin”

The people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yahweh 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 those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

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

They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

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

However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

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

They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

בִנְיָמִ֖ן vin.ya.Min “Benjamin”