All about the ancient tribes
Benjamin was described as a ravenous wolf by his father, and his tribe became known for their ferocity in battle. They did later lead the confederation of tribes into the first Israelite monarchy under Saul, but after that, lost control of the kingdom to Judah.
According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִן, Modern: Bīnyamīn, Tiberian: Bīnyāmīn) was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the patriarch Jacob and his wife Rachel.
The descendants of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin have survived as Jews because they were allowed to return to their homeland after the Babylonian Exile of 586 bc.
When the Children of Israel went into the Promised Land, Moses blessed the Tribe of Benjamin by saying: “Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in Him for He shields him all day long.
In Matthew 1:1–6 and Luke 3:31–34 of the New Testament, Jesus is described as a member of the tribe of Judah by lineage.
Land allotment Reuben. Simeon. Ephraim. Judah. Issachar. Zebulun. Dan. Naphtali.
Conquered by the Assyrian King Shalmaneser V, they were exiled to upper Mesopotamia and Medes, today modern Syria and Iraq. The Ten Tribes of Israel have never been seen since.
King Saul had become the first anointed king of Israel. He was from the Tribe of Benjamin. After Saul was killed the Kingdom was temporarily divided.
Of these 12, only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin survived. The 10 “lost tribes ” are the ones that inhabited the kingdom of Israel but were exiled by the king of Assyria, who conquered Israel in 721 B.C. Historians and biblical scholars have come up with numerous theories on the ultimate fate of these people.
Ten Lost Tribes Reuben. Simeon. Levi. Judah. Dan. Naphtali. Gad. Asher.
Since Ephraim and Manasseh (often called the “two half- tribes of Joseph “) together traditionally constituted the tribe of Joseph, it was often not listed as one of the tribes, in favour of Ephraim and Manasseh being listed in its place; consequently it was often termed the House of Joseph (Beit Yoseph, בית יוסף), to
Judea or Judaea, and the modern version of Judah (/dʒuːˈdiːə/; from Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yəhūda, Tiberian Yehūḏā, Greek: Ἰουδαία, Ioudaía; Latin: Iūdaea) is the ancient, historic, Biblical Hebrew, contemporaneous Latin, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of the region of Israel.
11.1–5) 46. ‘Benjamin is a ravenous wolf ‘ refers to Paul, who was a wolf to the wolves and snatched all souls away from the evil one, and ‘in the evening he will divide what he seizes’, that is, at the end of the world he will rest with a reward greater than his labors. (
As part of the Kingdom of Israel, the territory of Dan was conquered by the Assyrians, and exiled; the manner of their exile led to their further history being lost.