1 Samuel 10:20

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Then Samuel brought forward all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

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  • Josh 7:16-18 : 16 Early the next morning, Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken. 17 He had the clans of Judah come forward, and the clan of the Zerahites was taken. He had the clan of the Zerahites come forward, family by family, and Zabdi was taken. 18 Joshua had his family come forward man by man, and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
  • 1 Sam 14:41 : 41 Then Saul prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Give a perfect lot.' Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the people were cleared.
  • Acts 1:24-26 : 24 Then they prayed, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show us which of these two you have chosen. 25 To take up the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.” 26 Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

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  • 1 Sam 10:21-22
    2 verses
    83%

    21He then brought forward the tribe of Benjamin, clan by clan, and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Finally, Saul son of Kish was selected, but when they looked for him, he could not be found.

    22So they inquired further of the LORD, 'Has the man come here yet?' And the LORD said, 'He is hiding among the supplies.'

  • Judg 20:9-15
    7 verses
    76%

    9This is what we will do to Gibeah: We will decide by casting lots.

    10We will take ten men out of every hundred, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand across all the tribes of Israel. They will gather provisions for the army, so we can act against Gibeah in Benjamin for their disgraceful act in Israel.

    11So all the men of Israel were united together as one man against the city.

    12The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What is this awful crime that has been committed among you?"

    13Now hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

    14Instead, the Benjaminites gathered from their cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the Israelites.

    15On that day, the Benjaminites mustered twenty-six thousand men armed with swords from their towns, not counting the seven hundred elite troops from Gibeah.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    75%

    19'But today you have rejected your God, who delivers you from all your calamities and distresses. You have said to Him, "Set a king over us." Now present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.'

  • 1 Sam 9:21
    73%

    21Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And is not my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me this way?"

  • Num 2:22
    73%

    22Then the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the descendants of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni.

  • Judg 21:6
    72%

    6The Israelites grieved for Benjamin, their brother, and said, 'Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.'

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    72%

    17Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah.

  • Acts 13:21
    72%

    21Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled for forty years.

  • Judg 20:17-20
    4 verses
    71%

    17The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords, all experienced warriors.

    18The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, "Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjaminites?" The LORD replied, "Judah shall go first."

    19The next morning the Israelites got up and camped near Gibeah.

    20The Israelites went out to fight the Benjaminites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.

  • 1 Sam 13:15
    71%

    15Then Samuel left Gilgal and went up to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul counted the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.

  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24Then the Israelites approached the Benjaminites on the second day.

    25On the second day, the Benjaminites came out from Gibeah to meet the Israelites and struck down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

  • Josh 18:11
    70%

    11The lot of the tribe of Benjamin, according to their clans, came up. The territory allotted to their lot lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph.

  • Judg 20:30-36
    7 verses
    70%

    30On the third day, the Israelites went up against the Benjaminites and took up their positions against Gibeah, as they had done before.

    31The Benjaminites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as they had done before—about thirty men—in the open country, on the roads leading to Bethel and Gibeah.

    32The Benjaminites thought, "We are defeating them as before." But the Israelites said, "Let us retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads."

    33All the men of Israel rose up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelite ambush broke out of its place west of Gibeah.

    34Ten thousand of Israel's finest men advanced against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was closing in on them.

    35The LORD struck down Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites killed twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjaminites that day, all armed with swords.

    36Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had given ground to the Benjaminites because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.

  • 1 Sam 9:16
    70%

    16"About this time tomorrow, I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. You shall anoint him as ruler over my people Israel. He will deliver my people from the hand of the Philistines, for I have seen my people and their cry has reached me."

  • 1 Sam 22:7
    70%

    7Saul said to his servants who stood around him, 'Listen now, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?'

  • Num 1:36-37
    2 verses
    70%

    36The descendants of Benjamin were recorded by their generations, by their families, and by their ancestral houses, counting the names of all the males twenty years old or older, all able to serve in the army.

    37The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.

  • Josh 7:16
    70%

    16Early the next morning, Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.

  • Judg 20:39
    70%

    39When the Israelites turned in the battle, the Benjaminites had begun killing about thirty Israelites and thought, 'We are defeating them as in the first battle.'

  • Judg 21:15
    70%

    15The people of Israel grieved for Benjamin because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.

  • Judg 21:17
    69%

    17They said, 'The inheritance of the survivors of Benjamin must be preserved, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.'

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    69%

    16These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing its banks. They drove out all the people living in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

  • Judg 20:41
    69%

    41Then the Israelites turned on them, and the Benjaminites were terrified because they saw that disaster had overtaken them.

  • Josh 7:14
    69%

    14In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord selects shall come forward clan by clan; the clan the Lord selects shall come forward family by family; and the family the Lord selects shall come forward man by man.

  • 1 Sam 8:4
    69%

    4Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

  • 1 Sam 9:4
    69%

    4So they went through the hill country of Ephraim and the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they went through the land of Shaalim, but the donkeys were not there. They passed through the territory of Benjamin, but they still did not find them.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    69%

    25The men of Benjamin rallied to Abner, formed a single group, and took their stand on the top of a hill.

  • 1 Sam 9:1
    69%

    1There was a man from the tribe of Benjamin named Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, from the tribe of Benjamin, a man of great standing.

  • 1 Sam 16:10
    69%

    10Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, "The LORD has not chosen any of these."

  • Judg 20:3
    69%

    3The people of Benjamin heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. The Israelites said, "Tell us, how did this terrible crime happen?"

  • 1 Sam 12:1
    69%

    1Then Samuel said to all Israel, 'Here I am; I have listened to you in everything you have said to me, and I have set a king over you.'

  • 1 Chr 12:29
    68%

    29From the tribe of Benjamin, Saul’s kinsmen: 3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to Saul’s house until then.

  • Judg 21:3
    68%

    3They said, 'Why, LORD, God of Israel, has this happened in Israel, that one tribe is missing today?'