Genesis 49:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

Genesis 49:5 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 34:25-31
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. …
Genesis 29:33-34
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. …
Genesis 46:10-11
And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. …
Proverbs 18:9
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-7)

These were next in age to Reuben, and they also had been a grief and shame to Jacob, when they treacherously and barbarously destroyed the Shechemites, which he here remembers against them. Children should be afraid of incurring their parents’ just displeasure, lest they fare the worse for it long afterwards, and, when they would inherit the blessing, be rejected. Observe, 1. The character of Sime…