Benjamin (Jacob's son living at the time of the Patriarchs)

Benjamin was Jacob's twelfth and youngest son, born to Rachel as she died giving birth to him on the road near Bethlehem, and Jacob's fierce protectiveness of him drives much of the tension in Joseph's story, since losing Benjamin too was a grief Jacob said would kill him. His tribe later nearly destroyed itself in a civil war recorded in Judges after refusing to hand over men guilty of a horrific crime, and centuries later Benjamin's tribe produced Israel's first king, Saul, and the apostle Paul.