of the tribe of Benjamin thirty five thousand and four hundred] In the 46. of Gen. 21. his sons are reckoned more; as here the descendents from him are fewer then of any of the Patriarchs; there is a tyde and an ebb in the multiplication of families, as God pleaseth to enlarge or contract their numbers; so that he who at first might be called great Benjamin for his many children, is now but little Benjamin, Psalms 68:28. in respect of the smalnesse of his increase, and at one time this tribe was neer to a nullitie, Judg. 21. 3.