Verse 5

Simeon and Leui brethren, are cruell instrumentes in their habitations.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 34:25-31 : 25 And the thirde day, whyles they were sore, two of the sonnes of Iacob, Simeon & Leui Dinas brethren, toke eyther of them his sworde, and went into the citie boldely, and slue all that was male, 26 And slue also Hemor and Sithem his sonne with the edge of the sworde, and toke Dina out of Sichems house, and went theyr way. 27 And the sonnes of Iacob commyng vpon the dead, spoyled the citie, because they had defiled their sister. 28 And toke their sheepe, oxen, and their asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and also in the fieldes. 29 And all their goodes, and all their children, and their wiues, toke they captiue, and made hauocke of all that was in the house. 30 But Iacob sayde to Simeon & Leui: ye haue troubled me, and made me to be abhorred of the inhabitours of the land of the Chanaanite and the Pherezite: and I beyng fewe in number, they shall gather the selues together against me, and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed. 31 And they aunswered: shoulde he deale with our sister, as with an harlot?
• Gen 29:33-34 : 33 And she conceaued agayne, and bare a sonne, & sayde: The Lorde hath hearde that I am despised, and hath therefore geuen me this sonne also: and she called his name Simeon. 34 And she conceaued yet, & bare a sonne, and sayde: Nowe this once wyll my husbande kepe me company, because I haue borne him three sonnes: and therfore was his name called Leui.
• Gen 46:10-11 : 10 The children of Simeon: Iemuel, & Iamin, and Ohad, and Iachin, and Sohar, and Saul the sonne of a Chanaanitishe woman. 11 The chyldren of Leui: Gerson, Cehath, and Merari.
• Prov 18:9 : 9 Who so is slouthfull in his labour, is the brother of hym that is a waster.