Genesis 49:27 Cross References - MLV

²⁷ Benjamin is a wolf that ravens. In the morning he will devour the prey and at evening he will divide the spoil.

¹⁸ And it happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni.

²¹ And the sons of Benjamin were : Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

²⁴ Behold, the people rise up as a lioness and as a lion he lifts himself up. He will not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

¹² Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long and he dwells between his shoulders.

¹⁵ But when the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, Jehovah raised up for them a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. ¹⁶ And Ehud made for himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length. And he girded it under his garments upon his right thigh.
¹⁷ And he offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. ¹⁸ And when he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the men who bore the tribute. ¹⁹ But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal and said, I have a secret errand to you, O king. And he said, Keep silence. And all who stood by him went out from him.
²⁰ And Ehud came to him. And he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. And Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. And he arose out of his seat. ²¹ And Ehud put forth his left hand and took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into his body. ²² And the handle also went in after the blade and the fat closed upon the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his body and it came out behind.
²³ Then Ehud went forth into the porch and shut the doors of the upper room upon him and locked them. ²⁴ Now when he had gone out, his servants came and they saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked. And they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
²⁵ And they delayed till they were ashamed, and behold, he did not open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened, and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth. ²⁶ And Ehud escaped while they delayed and passed beyond the quarries and escaped to Seirah.
²⁷ And it happened, when he came, that he blew a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim. And the sons of Israel went down with him from the hill-country and he before them. ²⁸ And he said to them, Follow after me, for Jehovah has delivered your* enemies the Moabites into your* hand. And they went down after him and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow a man to pass over. ²⁹ And they killed* about ten thousand men of Moab at that time, every robust man and every man of valor and there escaped not a man.

²¹ And the sons of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty-two thousand men.

²⁵ And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day and destroyed down to the ground of the sons of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

⁴ Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and spoke these words in the ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voice and wept.
⁵ And behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field and Saul said, What troubles the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh. ⁶ And the Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard those words and his anger was greatly kindled.
⁷ And he took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever does not come out behind Saul and behind Samuel, so it will be done to his oxen. And the dread of Jehovah fell on the people and they came out as one man. ⁸ And he numbered them in Bezek and the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
⁹ And they said to the messengers who came, Thus you* will say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you* will have deliverance. And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh and they were glad. ¹⁰ Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you* and you* will do with us all that seems good to you*.
¹¹ And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and killed* the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And it happened, that those who remained were scattered so that not two of them were left together.

¹ Now it fell upon a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison that is on yonder side. But he did not tell his father.
² And Saul abode in the outermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron. And the people who were with him were about six hundred men, ³ and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Jehovah in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.
⁴ And between the passes by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. And the name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other Seneh. ⁵ The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash and the other on the south in front of Geba.
⁶ And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Jehovah will work for us, for there is no limitation to Jehovah to save by many or by few. ⁷ And his armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart. Turn and behold, I am with you according to your heart.
⁸ Then Jonathan said, Behold, we will pass over to the men and we will disclose ourselves to them. ⁹ If they say thus to us, Abide until we come to you*, then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them. ¹⁰ But if they say thus, Come up to us, then we will go up, for Jehovah has delivered them into our hand and this will be the sign to us.
¹¹ And both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. ¹² And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer and said, Come up to us and we will show you* a thing. And Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me, for Jehovah has delivered them into the hand of Israel.
¹³ And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet and his armor bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan and his armor bearer killed them after him.
¹⁴ And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. ¹⁵ And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field and among all the people. The garrison and the spoilers, they also trembled. And the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.

¹ Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle. And they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. ² And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and encamped in the vale of Elah and arranged for battle against the Philistines. ³ And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side and there was a valley between them.
⁴ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. ⁵ And he had a helmet of brass upon his head and he was clad with a coat of mail. And the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. ⁶ And he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a javelin of brass between his shoulders. ⁷ And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him.
⁸ And he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel and said to them, Why have you* come out to set your* battle in array? Am I not a Philistine and you* servants to Saul? Choose you* a man for you* and let him come down to me. ⁹ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your* servants, but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you* will be our servants and serve us.
¹⁰ And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together. ¹¹ And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
¹² Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse. And he had eight sons and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men. ¹³ And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn and next to him Abinadab and the third Shammah. ¹⁴ And David was the youngest and the three eldest followed Saul.
¹⁵ Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. ¹⁶ And the Philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself forty days. ¹⁷ And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers. ¹⁸ And bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand. And look how your brothers fare and take their pledge.
¹⁹ Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. ²⁰ And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle. ²¹ And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
²² And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army and came and saluted his brothers. ²³ And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke according to the same words and David heard them. ²⁴ And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were greatly afraid.
²⁵ And the men of Israel said, Have you* seen this man who has come up? Surely to defy Israel he has come up. And it will be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
²⁶ And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What will be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? ²⁷ And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So it will be done to the man that kills him.
²⁸ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David and he said, Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the mischief of your heart, for you have come down that you might see the battle.
²⁹ And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? ³⁰ And he turned away from him toward another and spoke after the same manner and the people answered him again after the former manner.
³¹ And when the words were heard which David spoke, they repeated them before Saul and he sent for him. ³² And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine. ³³ And Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth and he a man of war from his youth.
³⁴ And David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep and when there came a lion, or a bear and took a lamb out of the flock, ³⁵ I went out after him and killed* him and delivered it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and killed* him and killed him. ³⁶ Your servant killed* both the lion and the bear and this uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.
³⁷ And David said, Jehovah who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go and Jehovah will be with you.
³⁸ And Saul clad David with his apparel and he put a helmet of brass upon his head and he clad him with a coat of mail. ³⁹ And David girded his sword upon his apparel and he attempted to go, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them. And David put them off of him.
⁴⁰ And he took his staff in his hand and chose for him five smooth stones out of the brook and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet. And his sling was in his hand and he drew near to the Philistine.
⁴¹ And the Philistine came on and drew near to David and the man who bore the shield went before him. ⁴² And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth and ruddy and of a fair countenance.
⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. ⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, Come to me and I will give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the field.
⁴⁵ Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of Jehovah of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
⁴⁶ This day Jehovah will deliver you into my hand and I will kill* you and take your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the armies of the Philistines this day to the birds of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, ⁴⁷ and that all this assembly may know that Jehovah saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is Jehovah's and he will give you* into our hand.
⁴⁸ And it happened, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hastened and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. ⁴⁹ And David put his hand in his bag and took from there a stone and slung it and killed* the Philistine in his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead and he fell upon his face to the earth.
⁵⁰ So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and killed* the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David.
⁵¹ Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of the sheath of it and killed him and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
⁵² And the men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted and pursued the Philistines until you come to Gai and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron. ⁵³ And the sons of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines and they plundered their camp.
⁵⁴ And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.
⁵⁵ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I cannot tell. ⁵⁶ And the king said, Inquire you whose son the stripling is.
⁵⁷ And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. ⁵⁸ And Saul said to him, Whose son are you, young man? And David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

⁶ Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them; a wolf of the evenings will destroy them; a leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst of it.

²⁷ Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

⁷ Therefore I am to them as a lion. As a leopard I will watch by the way. ⁸ I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs and will tear the encasement of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild beast will tear them.

³ Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.

¹⁵ But take-heed, stay away from false prophets, who are coming to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves.

¹⁶ Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, become prudent like serpents and harmless like doves.

³ Now Saul was devastating the congregation of believers, traveling into every house and dragging men and women away, he was giving them up to prison.

{37 AD. Samaria. Tiberius Caesar dies March 16. Caligula attempts to put his statue in the Temple.}

¹ But Saul, still breathing threatening and murder toward the disciples of the Lord, having come to the high-priest,

²⁹ I know this: after my goodbye, cruel wolves will be entering into you, not sparing the flock;

⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee;