Quotes About Tribes

With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.

Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:

See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.

Afterward, the men of Judah marched down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the foothills.

Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.

We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”

And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.

The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.

And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ëNo, set a king over us.í Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”

to those in Racal and in the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites;

and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.

but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.

And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.

Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”

and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëBehold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.

But I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from the hand of his son and give them to you.