Bible Cross References
ravin
Genesis 35:18
But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 46:21
Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Deuteronomy 33:12
About the tribe of Benjamin he said: "This is the tribe the LORD loves and protects; He guards them all the day long, And he dwells in their midst."
a wolf
Numbers 23:24
The nation of Israel is like a mighty lion: It doesn't rest until it has torn and devoured, Until it has drunk the blood of those it has killed."
Judges 3:15-29
15
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he sent someone to free them. This was Ehud, a left-handed man, who was the son of Gera, from the tribe of Benjamin. The people of Israel sent Ehud to King Eglon of Moab with gifts for him.
16
Ehud had made himself a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long. He had it fastened on his right side under his clothes.
17
Then he took the gifts to Eglon, who was a very fat man.
18
When Ehud had given him the gifts, he told the men who had carried them to go back home.
19
But Ehud himself turned back at the carved stones near Gilgal, went back to Eglon, and said, "Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you." So the king ordered his servants, "Leave us alone!" And they all went out.
20
Then, as the king was sitting there alone in his cool room on the roof, Ehud went over to him and said, "I have a message from God for you." The king stood up.
21
With his left hand Ehud took the sword from his right side and plunged it into the king's belly.
22
The whole sword went in, handle and all, and the fat covered it up. Ehud did not pull it out of the king's belly, and it stuck out behind, between his legs.
23
Then Ehud went outside, closed the doors behind him, locked them,
24
and left. The servants came and saw that the doors were locked, but they only thought that the king was inside, relieving himself.
25
They waited as long as they thought they should, but when he still did not open the door, they took the key and opened it. And there was their master, lying dead on the floor.
26
Ehud got away while they were waiting. He went past the carved stones and escaped to Seirah.
27
When he arrived there in the hill country of Ephraim, he blew a trumpet to call the people of Israel to battle; then he led them down from the hills.
28
He told them, "Follow me! The LORD has given you victory over your enemies, the Moabites." So they followed Ehud down and captured the place where the Moabites were to cross the Jordan; they did not allow anyone to cross.
29
That day they killed about ten thousand of the best Moabite soldiers; none of them escaped.
Judges 20:21
The army of Benjamin came out of the city, and before the day was over they had killed twenty-two thousand Israelite soldiers.
Judges 20:25
And for the second time the Benjaminites came out of Gibeah, and this time they killed eighteen thousand trained Israelite soldiers.
1 Samuel 11:4-11
4
The messengers arrived at Gibeah, where Saul lived, and when they told the news, the people started crying in despair.
5
Saul was just then coming in from the field with his oxen, and he asked, "What's wrong? Why is everyone crying?" They told him what the messengers from Jabesh had reported.
6
When Saul heard this, the spirit of God took control of him, and he became furious.
7
He took two oxen, cut them in pieces, and had messengers carry the pieces throughout the land of Israel with this warning: "Whoever does not follow Saul and Samuel into battle will have this done to his oxen!" The people of Israel were afraid of what the LORD might do, and all of them, without exception, came out together.
8
Saul gathered them at Bezek: there were 300,000 from Israel and 30,000 from Judah.
9
They said to the messengers from Jabesh, "Tell your people that before noon tomorrow they will be rescued." When the people of Jabesh received the message, they were overjoyed
10
and said to Nahash, "Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do with us whatever you wish."
11
That night Saul divided his men into three groups, and at dawn the next day they rushed into the enemy camp and attacked the Ammonites. By noon they had slaughtered them. The survivors scattered, each man running off by himself.
1 Samuel 14:1-15
1
One day Jonathan said to the young man who carried his weapons, "Let's go across to the Philistine camp." But Jonathan did not tell his father Saul,
2
who was camping under a pomegranate tree in Migron, not far from Gibeah; he had about six hundred men with him.
3
(The priest carrying the ephod was Ahijah, the son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub, who was the son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh.) The men did not know that Jonathan had left.
4
In Michmash Pass, which Jonathan had to go through to get over to the Philistine camp, there were two large jagged rocks, one on each side of the pass: one was called Bozez and the other Seneh.
5
One was on the north side of the pass, facing Michmash, and the other was on the south side, facing Geba.
6
Jonathan said to the young man, "Let's cross over to the camp of those heathen Philistines. Maybe the LORD will help us; if he does, nothing can keep him from giving us the victory, no matter how few of us there are."
7
The young man answered, "Whatever you want to do, I'm with you."
8
"All right," Jonathan said. "We will go across and let the Philistines see us.
9
If they tell us to wait for them to come to us, then we will stay where we are.
10
But if they tell us to go to them, then we will, because that will be the sign that the LORD has given us victory over them."
11
So they let the Philistines see them, and the Philistines said, "Look! Some Hebrews are coming out of the holes they have been hiding in!"
12
Then they called out to Jonathan and the young man, "Come on up here! We have something to tell you!" Jonathan said to the young man, "Follow me. The LORD has given Israel victory over them."
13
Jonathan climbed up out of the pass on his hands and knees, and the young man followed him. Jonathan attacked the Philistines and knocked them down, and the young man killed them.
14
In that first slaughter Jonathan and the young man killed about twenty men in an area of about half an acre.
15
All the Philistines in the countryside were terrified; the raiders and the soldiers in the camp trembled with fear; the earth shook, and there was great panic.
1 Samuel 17:1-58
1
The Philistines gathered for battle in Socoh, a town in Judah; they camped at a place called Ephes Dammim, between Socoh and Azekah.
2
Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in Elah Valley, where they got ready to fight the Philistines.
3
The Philistines lined up on one hill and the Israelites on another, with a valley between them.
4
A man named Goliath, from the city of Gath, came out from the Philistine camp to challenge the Israelites. He was over nine feet tall
5
and wore bronze armor that weighed about 125 pounds and a bronze helmet.
6
His legs were also protected by bronze armor, and he carried a bronze javelin slung over his shoulder.
7
His spear was as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom, and its iron head weighed about fifteen pounds. A soldier walked in front of him carrying his shield.
8
Goliath stood and shouted at the Israelites, "What are you doing there, lined up for battle? I am a Philistine, you slaves of Saul! Choose one of your men to fight me.
9
If he wins and kills me, we will be your slaves; but if I win and kill him, you will be our slaves.
10
Here and now I challenge the Israelite army. I dare you to pick someone to fight me!"
11
When Saul and his men heard this, they were terrified.
12
David was the son of Jesse, who was an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and at the time Saul was king, he was already a very old man.
13
His three oldest sons had gone with Saul to war. The oldest was Eliab, the next was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
14
David was the youngest son, and while the three oldest brothers stayed with Saul,
15
David would go back to Bethlehem from time to time, to take care of his father's sheep.
16
Goliath challenged the Israelites every morning and evening for forty days.
17
One day Jesse said to David, "Take a half-bushel of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and hurry with them to your brothers in the camp.
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And take these ten cheeses to the commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are getting along and bring back something to show that you saw them and that they are well.
19
King Saul, your brothers, and all the other Israelites are in Elah Valley fighting the Philistines."
20
David got up early the next morning, left someone else in charge of the sheep, took the food, and went as Jesse had told him to. He arrived at the camp just as the Israelites were going out to their battle line, shouting the war cry.
21
The Philistine and the Israelite armies took positions for battle, facing each other.
22
David left the food with the officer in charge of the supplies, ran to the battle line, went to his brothers, and asked how they were getting along.
23
As he was talking with them, Goliath came forward and challenged the Israelites as he had done before. And David heard him.
24
When the Israelites saw Goliath, they ran away in terror.
25
"Look at him!" they said to each other. "Listen to his challenge! King Saul has promised to give a big reward to the man who kills him; the king will also give him his daughter to marry and will not require his father's family to pay taxes."
26
David asked the men who were near him, "What will the man get who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from this disgrace? After all, who is this heathen Philistine to defy the army of the living God?"
27
They told him what would be done for the man who killed Goliath.
28
Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard David talking to the men. He became angry with David and said, "What are you doing here? Who is taking care of those sheep of yours out there in the wilderness? You smart aleck, you! You just came to watch the fighting!"
29
"Now what have I done?" David asked. "Can't I even ask a question?"
30
He turned to another man and asked him the same question, and every time he asked, he got the same answer.
31
Some men heard what David had said, and they told Saul, who sent for him.
32
David said to Saul, "Your Majesty, no one should be afraid of this Philistine! I will go and fight him."
33
"No," answered Saul. "How could you fight him? You're just a boy, and he has been a soldier all his life!"
34
"Your Majesty," David said, "I take care of my father's sheep. Any time a lion or a bear carries off a lamb,
35
I go after it, attack it, and rescue the lamb. And if the lion or bear turns on me, I grab it by the throat and beat it to death.
36
I have killed lions and bears, and I will do the same to this heathen Philistine, who has defied the army of the living God.
37
The LORD has saved me from lions and bears; he will save me from this Philistine." "All right," Saul answered. "Go, and the LORD be with you."
38
He gave his own armor to David for him to wear: a bronze helmet, which he put on David's head, and a coat of armor.
39
David strapped Saul's sword over the armor and tried to walk, but he couldn't, because he wasn't used to wearing them. "I can't fight with all this," he said to Saul. "I'm not used to it." So he took it all off.
40
He took his shepherd's stick and then picked up five smooth stones from the stream and put them in his bag. With his sling ready, he went out to meet Goliath.
41
The Philistine started walking toward David, with his shield bearer walking in front of him. He kept coming closer,
42
and when he got a good look at David, he was filled with scorn for him because he was just a nice, good-looking boy.
43
He said to David, "What's that stick for? Do you think I'm a dog?" And he called down curses from his god on David.
44
"Come on," he challenged David, "and I will give your body to the birds and animals to eat."
45
David answered, "You are coming against me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the Israelite armies, which you have defied.
46
This very day the LORD will put you in my power; I will defeat you and cut off your head. And I will give the bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and animals to eat. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a God,
47
and everyone here will see that the LORD does not need swords or spears to save his people. He is victorious in battle, and he will put all of you in our power."
48
Goliath started walking toward David again, and David ran quickly toward the Philistine battle line to fight him.
49
He reached into his bag and took out a stone, which he slung at Goliath. It hit him on the forehead and broke his skull, and Goliath fell face downward on the ground.
50
And so, without a sword, David defeated and killed Goliath with a sling and a stone!
51
He ran to him, stood over him, took Goliath's sword out of its sheath, and cut off his head and killed him. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they ran away.
52
The men of Israel and Judah shouted and ran after them, pursuing them all the way to Gath and to the gates of Ekron. The Philistines fell wounded all along the road that leads to Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron.
53
When the Israelites came back from pursuing the Philistines, they looted their camp.
54
David got Goliath's head and took it to Jerusalem, but he kept Goliath's weapons in his own tent.
55
When Saul saw David going out to fight Goliath, he asked Abner, the commander of his army, "Abner, whose son is he?" "I have no idea, Your Majesty," Abner answered.
56
"Then go and find out," Saul ordered.
57
So when David returned to camp after killing Goliath, Abner took him to Saul. David was still carrying Goliath's head.
58
Saul asked him, "Young man, whose son are you?" "I am the son of your servant Jesse from Bethlehem," David answered.
Acts 8:3
But Saul tried to destroy the church; going from house to house, he dragged out the believers, both men and women, and threw them into jail.
Acts 9:1
In the meantime Saul kept up his violent threats of murder against the followers of the Lord. He went to the High Priest
Philippians 3:5
I was circumcised when I was a week old. I am an Israelite by birth, of the tribe of Benjamin, a pure-blooded Hebrew. As far as keeping the Jewish Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee,
at night
Jeremiah 5:6
That is why lions from the forest will kill them; wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God.
Ezekiel 22:25
The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.
Ezekiel 22:27
The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.
Hosea 13:7
So I will attack you like a lion. Like a leopard I will lie in wait along your path.
Hosea 13:8
I will attack you like a bear that has lost her cubs, and I will tear you open. Like a lion I will devour you on the spot, and will tear you to pieces like a wild animal.
Zephaniah 3:3
Its officials are like roaring lions; its judges are like hungry wolves, too greedy to leave a bone until morning.
Matthew 7:15
"Be on your guard against false prophets; they come to you looking like sheep on the outside, but on the inside they are really like wild wolves.
Matthew 10:16
"Listen! I am sending you out just like sheep to a pack of wolves. You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves.
Acts 20:29
I know that after I leave, fierce wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock.