Skip to content

Bible Verses About Tribe Of Benjamin: Furnished the first king to Israel

6 verses · 35 aspects

Verses on Furnished the first king to Israel

  1. Now the Lord had revealed to the ear of Samuel the day before Saul came, saying:

  2. To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me.

  3. And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him: Behold the man, of whom I spoke to thee, this man shall reign over my people.

  4. But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul's army, took Isboseth the son of Saul, and led him about through the camp,

  5. And made him king over Galaad, and over Gessuri, and over Jezrahel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

  6. Isboseth the son of Saul was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years; and only the house of Juda followed David.