Genesis 49:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their dwellings.

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  • Gen 34:25-31 : 25 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 brothers, took each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, and what was in the city and what was in the field. 29 And all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and they plundered even all that was in the houses. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me by making me despised among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I, being few in number, they will gather together against me and slay me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my household. 31 And they said, Should he treat our sister as a harlot?
  • Gen 29:33-34 : 33 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Because the LORD has heard that I was unloved, He has therefore given me this son also; and she called his name Simeon. 34 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons; therefore his name was called Levi.
  • Gen 46:10-11 : 10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 He who is slothful in his work is brother to him who is a great waster.

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  • Gen 34:29-30
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    29 And all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and they plundered even all that was in the houses.

    30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me by making me despised among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I, being few in number, they will gather together against me and slay me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my household.

  • Gen 34:25-27
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    25 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 brothers, took each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males.

    26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left.

    27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister.

  • Gen 49:6-7
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    6 O my soul, do not come into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, do not be united: for in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they tore 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.

  • Gen 35:23
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    23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

  • Exod 1:2
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    2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

  • Gen 49:4
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    4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it: he went up to my couch.

  • Jer 5:16
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    16 Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 2:1
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    1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

  • Josh 19:9
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    9 Out of the portion of the descendants of Judah was the inheritance of the descendants of Simeon: for the part of the descendants of Judah was too much for them: therefore the descendants of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

    2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14 The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

    15 Their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

  • Judg 1:3
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    3 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.

  • Gen 34:13
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    13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah, their sister,

  • Hos 6:9
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    9 And as bands of robbers wait for someone, so the company of priests murder on the way by agreement: for they commit lewdness.