Gate Of Benjamin
Gate Of Benjamin
(Jer 37:13; Jer 38:7; Benjamin’s gate, Zec 14:10; high gate of Benjamin, Jer 20:2) was doubtless on the northern side of Jerusalem, probably the same elsewhere called the gate of Ephraim (1Ki 14:13), and apparently coinciding nearly in position with the present Damascus Gate (Strong’s Harmony and Expos. of the Gospels, App. 2, p. 18). SEE JERUSALEM.
2. A man of the tribe of Benjamin, second named of the seven sons of Bilhan, and the head of a family of warriors (1Ch 7:10). B.C. perh. cir. 1016.
3. An Israelite, one of the sons of Harim, who divorced his foreign wife after the exile (Ezr 10:32). B.C. 458. He seems to be the same person who had previously assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem (in connection with Hashub), opposite his house on Zion (Neh 3:23).