Benjamin was the last born of Jacob’s children (Israel’s twelve tribes), and the second and last born to Rachel (who died giving birth to him). He is known as a righteous youngster and the one brother who did not plot against Joseph. Benjamin’s descendants formed the tribe of Benjamin, the Benjamites, which was the second smallest and the ones who received the smallest of the allotments of the Tribal Lands after entering the Promised Land. It is interesting to note that Saul, the first human king of the Israelites, was a Benjamite. Many years after the northern kingdom was conquered, Judah and Benjamin were conquered by the Babylonians, but they did return after the Babylonians fell to the Persians. It is said that Judah and Benjamin form the Jewish people of today.
