Genesis 49:7

Accursed is their anger that it is so fierce, and their wrath because it is so cruel; I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6My heart will not join in their assembly, for men in their anger they slew. and oxen in their wantonness they hamstrung.

8Judah, your brothers praise you! Your hand is on the neck of your enemies. Before you your father’s sons bow down.

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Cross References

Joshua 19:1The second lot fell to the tribe of the Simeonites by their clans. Their inheritance lay inside the inheritance of the Judahites.

Joshua 21:1Then the heads of the Levites appeared before Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the tribes of Israel

Joshua 21:8These towns and their pastures were allotted to the Levites by the Israelites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.

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 →

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