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27There is little Benjamin with their ruler{H8802)}, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
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And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)In these verses we have three things:— I. The gracious promise which God makes of the redemption of his people, and their victory over his and their enemies ( Ps. 68:22 , 23 ): The Lord said , in his own gracious purpose and promise, “I will do great things for my people, as the God of their salvation,” Ps. 68:20. God will not fail the expectations of those who by faith take him for their God. It…
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