“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey
and at evening dividing the spoil.”
Genesis 49:27
I have been struggling with the meaning and application of this prophecy about Jacob's final son Benjamin. What does it mean? What is God saying to us?
In her research, a writer friend of mine ran across the suggestion that the prophecy about Benjamin being a ravenous wolf had to do with the whole fiasco in the final chapters of Judges, beginning with the Levite and his concubine and the wicked deeds done in a city of Benjamin. When the tribe of Benjamin was asked to turn over the criminals, they went to war, instead of allowing perverse criminals to pay for their horrid deeds. This resulted in thousands of deaths and the almost complete destruction of their own tribe.
Their dividing of the spoils of war was not in voluntary repentance. They received the spoils from the other tribes who had realized that it would be a terrible thing for an entire tribe to be lost from The Children of Israel.
The theme of those final chapters of Judges is declared in chapter 17 and repeated in chapter 21.
"In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
Judges 17:6
As we run our businesses, conduct our politics, and live our lives in a grant no quarter and take no prisoners mindset, we set ourselves up for ultimate destruction.
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