Quotations

«Otto von Bismarck: The Germans have just bought a new country in Africa where Jews and pigs will be tolerated.Benjamin Disraeli: Fortunately, we are both here (in England).»

«Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.»

«Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz, / And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, / And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah, / And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages: / Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, / And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, / And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, / And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.»

«But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it; / And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.»

«But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.»

«Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.»

«On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered: / His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: / One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: / One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: / One kid of the goats for a sin offering: / And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.»

«Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah: / Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok: / Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: / Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel: / Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: / Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: / Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.»

«Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel; / Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.»

«But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; / And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.»