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(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).