Simeon and Levi, are brethren, - Instruments of violence, are their agreements: Into their circle, do not thou enter my soul! In their convocation, do not thou join mine honour! For in their anger, they slew brave men, And in their wantonness, they hamstrung oxen. read more. Accursed, be their anger, because fierce, And their wrath because cruel, - I divide them in Jacob, And I disperse them in Israel.

such as were numbered of them as belonging to the tribe of Simeon, fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.

These, are the families of the Simeonites, - two and twenty thousand and two hundred.

And the second lot came out, for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon, by their families, - and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah. And they had for their inheritance, - Beer-sheba or Sheba, and Moladah, read more. and Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Ezem, and Eltolad and Bethul, and Hormah, and Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah, and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen, - thirteen cities, with their villages: Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan, - four cities, with their villages, and all the villages that were round about these cities, as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This, is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, by their families: Out of the portion of the sons of Judah, is the inheritance of the sons of Simeon, - for it came to pass that what was allotted to the sons of Judah, was too much for them, therefore did the sons of Simeon receive an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

The sons of Simeon, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul: Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. read more. And, the sons of Mishma, Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. And, Shimei, had sixteen sons, and six daughters, but, his brethren, had not many children, - nor did, any of their family, multiply so much as the sons of Judah. And they dwelt in Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual; and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad; and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag; and in Beth-marcaboth, and in Hazar-susim, and in Beth-biri, and in Shaaraim. These, were their cities unto the reign of David. And, their villages, were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, - five cities; and all their villages that were round about these cities, as far as Baal. These, were their habitations, and they had their own genealogical register. And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah; and Joel, - and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel: and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah: and Ziza, son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. These, introduced by their names, were leading men in their families. And, their ancestral house, brake forth exceedingly; so they went to the entering in of Gerar, unto the east of the valley, - to seek pasture for their flocks; and they found pasture, fat and good, and, the land, was broad on both hands, and quiet, and secure, - for, of Ham, were the dwellers there aforetime. But these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and devoted them, until this day, and dwelt in their stead, - for there was pasture for their flocks, there. And, some of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, five hundred men, - with Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head; and they smote the remainder that had escaped, of the Amalekites, - and dwelt there - as they have unto this day.