Genesis 49:6
My heart will not join in their assembly, for men in their anger they slew. and oxen in their wantonness they hamstrung.
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In Context
5Simeon and Levi are akin, weapons of violence are their swords. I will not enter into their council,
Cross References
Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought me into trouble, in that you have made me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Since I have only a few people, if they gather themselves together against me they will attack me – and I and my house will be destroyed.”
Psalms 5:10Condemn them, God; let their schemes bring them down to the ground. For their numberless crimes thrust them down for playing the rebel against you.
Psalms 26:4I never sat down with the worthless, nor companied with dissemblers.
Psalms 28:3Take me not off with the wicked, nor with the workers of wrong, whose speech to their neighbors is friendly, while evil is in their heart.
Psalms 42:5Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
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 →