Genesis 49:6

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Summary

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.

O my soul

Come

Secret

Unto their

Honour

Psalm 16:9

Psalm 30:12

Psalm 57:8

A man

Genesis 34:25

General references

Numbers 1:22

Bible References

O my soul

The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. Tread down, O my soul, with strength.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted against me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him for the wellbeing of his presence.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless the name of his holiness.

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Come

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.

Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out for the multitude of their rebellions; for they have rebelled against thee.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Do not catch me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, who creates toil under the guise of law?

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.

The thoughts of the righteous are upright, but the astuteness of the wicked is deceit.

Secret

Cursed is he that smites his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Gather not my soul with the sinners, nor my life with those who have blood on their hands:

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor did I become puffed up by reason of thy prophecy; I sat alone because thou hast filled me with indignation.

Unto their

Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

Gather not my soul with the sinners, nor my life with those who have blood on their hands:

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, who creates toil under the guise of law?

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship does righteousness have with unrighteousness? and what communion does light have with darkness?

Honour

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest secure.

to the end that I may sing glory unto thee and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp; I myself will arise early.

A man

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males.

General references

Of the sons of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the houses of their fathers, those that were numbered of him, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,