18 Judah is usually of medium height with strong expressive features, short and strong nose, but it may be fairly long, brown eyes, generally dark complexion. Judah holds a large place in "The House of Israel" a goodly number of the tribe of Judah must have gone into captivity to Assyria. Emblem, The lion. THE DOMINANT HEART-CHARACTER OF THE PERSONALITY OF BENJAMIN IN ACTION AND ALSO GIVING THE RESULTS OF HIS ACTS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE LORD IN THE LAST DAYS The Lord portraying the GEN. XLIX:27-B. C. 1689 27 ¶ Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. JUDGES III:12-31-B. C. 1406 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, H. L. Boardman was of the and possessed the city of palm Tribe of Benjamin. -From Webber. DEUT. XXXIII:12-B. C. 1451 12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. trees. 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left-handed: and by him the *Deut. 33:12 and Gen. 49:27-"And at night he shall divide the spoil," or Loyalty. The dominant HEART-CHARACTER of the Personality of Benjamin in action. Deut. 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Deut. 8:1-6-1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and children of Israel sent a present 17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. 18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. 19. But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. 2 20 And. Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer self alone. And Ehud said, I have parlour, which he had for himAnd he arose out of his seat. a message from God unto thee. 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. 23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. 24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. |