Genesis 34:30

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Summary

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Ye have

To stink

And i being

And i shall

Romans 4:18

General references

Genesis 35:5

Numbers 1:22

Bible References

Ye have

“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Their swords are implements of violence.

Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

He said, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.

The son of Carmi was

Achar, the troubler of Israel, who violated the ban.

The merciful man does himself good,
But the cruel man does himself harm.

He who profits illicitly troubles his own house,
But he who hates bribes will live.

To stink

They said to them, “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, for you have made us odious in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

All Israel heard the news that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. The people were then summoned to Saul at Gilgal.

So Achish believed David, saying, “He has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will become my servant forever.”

When the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah and from Zobah.

And i being

the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

Remember His wonderful deeds which He has done,

His marvels and the judgments from His mouth,

When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.

And i shall

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants.

But Samuel said, “How can I go? When Saul hears of it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

Then David said to himself, “Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your

descendants be.”

General references

As they journeyed, there was

a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,