After this battle Abner switched to the side of David and granted him control over the tribe of Benjamin.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

The Philistines are afflicted with plagues and return the ark to the Israelites, but to the territory of the tribe of Benjamin rather than to Shiloh.

God reluctantly accedes and gives them Saul of the tribe of Benjamin.

It is said in Muslim tradition that Jonah came from the tribe of Benjamin and that his father was Amittai.

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

* Elam is a son of Shashak of the tribe of Benjamin in 1 Chronicles 8: 24.

In the summer of 1825, the tribe was visited on the upper Missouri by a US treaty commission consisting of General Henry Atkinson and Indian agent Benjamin O ' Fallon, accompanied by a military escort of 476 men.

One difficulty is that the narrative of Joshua appears to place the valley of Achor to the north of Jericho, between Jericho and Ai ; but Joshua makes the valley part of the boundary between the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, to the south of Jericho, but not as far south as El-Buqei ' a.

Ananiah, in the Bible, is a town in the tribe of Benjamin between Nob and Hazor ().

Anathoth () is the name of one of the cities given to " the children of Aaron " ( Joshua 21: 13, 18 ; 1 Chronicles 6: 54, 60 ), in the tribe of Benjamin ( Josh.

At its height, the Tribe of Judah was the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, and occupied most of the territory of the kingdom, except for a small region in the north east occupied by Benjamin, and an enclave towards the south west which was occupied by Simeon.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) represent a second migration of Israelites to Israel, later than the main tribes, specifically that it was only the Joseph tribes which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout ; in the narrative in the Book of Joshua, which concerns the arrival in ( and conquest of ) Canaan by the Israelites from Egypt, the leader is Joshua, who was a member of the Ephraim tribe.

Paul of Tarsus indicates that changing liturgical sects in the Diaspora had occurred while still identifying oneself as ' Jewish ' or ' Hebrew ' ' circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, the Hebrew of Hebrews ; in regard to the law, I am a Pharisee ' Philippians 3: 5.

Some critics, however, view this as a postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.

He was the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin.

With the tribe of Benjamin they had at least one severe struggle, in union with their kindred the Ammonites and the Amalekites.

If this was the case, the reason Joab killed Abner may have been that he became a threat to his rank of general, since Abner had switched to the side of David and granted him control over the tribe of Benjamin.

18, in which " a prophet like Moses " is promised: " As Moses was a prophet for forty years, so was Jeremiah ; as Moses prophesied concerning Judah and Benjamin, so did Jeremiah ; as Moses ' own tribe Levites under Korah rose up against him, so did Jeremiah's tribe revolt against him ; Moses was cast into the water, Jeremiah into a pit ; as Moses was saved by a slave ( the slave of Pharaoh's daughter ); so, Jeremiah was rescued by a slave ( Ebed-melech ); Moses reprimanded the people in discourses ; so did Jeremiah.

She is in Madame Tussard's Waxworks in London, a princess of the Kiowa tribe and an honorary colonel in many states.

Zainab was the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Houara ( a Masmuda tribe ), who is said to be from Kairouan in origin.

This is another area influenced by native Indians, particularly by the Guaraní tribe.

The word " Aymāq " is Mongolian meaning " tribe " or " grazing territory ".

The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.

Another likely ancestor of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

Such a connection is possible if the original form of Boii belonged to a tribe of Proto-Indo-European speakers long before the time of the historic Boii.

Their memory also survives in the modern regional names of Bohemia ( Boiohaemum ), a mixed-language form from boio-and Proto-Germanic * haimaz, " home ": " home of the Boii ," and ' Bayern ', Bavaria, which is derived from the Germanic Baiovarii tribe ( Germ.

" This section is a " covenantal land grant ": Yahweh, as king, is issuing each tribe its territory.

It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this tribe, which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.

The tribe of Levi is exempted from military service and therefore not included in the census totals.

The boundaries of the land are spelled out ; the land is to be divided under the supervision of Eleazar, Joshua, and twelve princes, one of each tribe.

In the superscription of the Old Greek version, Habakkuk is called the son of Joshua of the tribe of Levi.

In Civilization V: Gods & Kings, Boudicca is the leader of the Celtic tribe.

It was directed against the Yakoma tribe, of which it is estimated that 20, 000 persons fled during this period.

Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

A well known case of mortuary cannibalism is that of the Fore tribe in New Guinea which resulted in the spread of the prion disease kuru.

Exocannibalism is the consumption of a person from outside the community, usually as a celebration of victory against a rival tribe.

The name čeština " Czech " is derived from a Slavic tribe of Czechs ( Čech, pl.

According to a legend, it is derived from the Forefather Čech, who brought the tribe of Czechs into its land.