Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, 1 And their anger, for it was cruel: 1 I will divide them in Jacob, 1 And scatter them in Israel. 1
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Joshua 19:1And the second lot came out for the children of Simeon; and their inheritance was in the midst of the lots of the children of Judah.
Joshua 21:1And the heads of the families of the sons of Levi drew near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of Israel.
Joshua 21:8And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord commanded Moses, by lot.
2 Samuel 13:22And Absalom spoke not to Amnon, good or bad, because Absalom hated Amnon, on account of his humbling his sister Tamar.
1 Chronicles 4:39And they went till they came to Gedor, to the east of Gai, to seek pasture for their cattle.
Proverbs 26:24A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, 1 But in his heart he contrives deceit. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:6-8
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. These were next in age to Reuben, and they also had been a grief and shame to Jacob, when they treacherously and… Read the whole commentary →