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5. Simeon and Levi, brethren:
They have accomplished their fraudulent purposes.
6. Into their secret council my soul did not come;
In their confederacy my honour was not united:
For in their anger...
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5. מכרה _m__e__kêrāh_, “weapon;” related: כיר _kārar_
or כרה _kārāh_ dig. “Device, design?” related: מכר
_mākar_ “sell,” in Arabic “take counsel. Habitation.”
10. מחקק...
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CHAPTER 49 JACOB'S PROPHECY
_ 1. The call of Jacob: “Gather yourselves together” (Genesis
49:1)_
2. The prophecy concerning his sons (Genesis 49:3)
Reuben (Genesis 49:3)
Simeon and Levi ...
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THE BLESSING OF JACOB. This poem had an independent origin, but if it
was incorporated in one of the main documents it would be in J. It is
not a mere collection of originally isolated utterances on t...
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SIMEON AND LEVI ARE BRETHREN— That is, fellows in wickedness.
אחים _achim,_ rendered _brethren,_ is used for persons of the same
turn of mind. See Proverbs 18:9; Proverbs 18:24. Jacob intimates that
t...
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PART FORTY-SEVEN
THE LAST DAYS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH
(Genesis 48:1 to Genesis 50:26)
The Biblical Account
48 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph,
Behold, thy father is sick:...
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49:5 swords. (b-10) The sense of the Hebrew word is doubtful....
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JACOB BLESSES HIS TWELVE SONS
It is generally considered that in its present form, this chapter
gives us indeed the last utterances of the dying patriarch respecting
the future of his sons, but with a...
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INSTRUMENTS OF CRUELTY, ETC.] better, 'their swords are weapons of
violence.'...
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‘They use their swords.’ Simeon and Levi attacked the men in
Shechem. (See Genesis 34:25-26.) ‘I do not agree.’ Jacob told them
that their deed was wrong. (See Genesis 34:30.)...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 49
JACOB BLESSES HIS SONS
V1 Then Jacob called his sons. He said to them, ‘Gather yourselves
together. I will tell you what shall happen to you in...
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Before Jacob died, he gave his *blessing as the father of the family.
A father’s *blessing was very important. (See Isaac’s *blessing in
Genesis 27:26-40.) God told Jacob what he should say. Therefore...
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SIMEON AND LEVI ARE BRETHREN. — That is, they are alike in character
and disposition. Despising the feeble Reuben, they seem to have been
close friends and allies, and probably tried to exercise a tyr...
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שִׁמְעֹ֥ון וְ לֵוִ֖י אַחִ֑ים כְּלֵ֥י
חָמָ֖ס מ
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THE BLESSINGS OF THE TRIBES
Genesis 48:1; Genesis 49:1
JACOB'S blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal
dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does not
consist o...
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JACOB FORETELLS THE FUTURE OF HIS SONS
Genesis 49:1
Once more Joseph visited his father's dying-bed. This was the third
time and the last. He stood as one of twelve strong bearded men,
gathered aroun...
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Before his passing, Jacob, in forecasting the future of his sons,
based what he had to say on what he had already seen in them. In some
cases the allusions are difficult to follow, and the connection...
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JACOB'S FINAL DAYS
The writer gives a brief record of the rest of Jacob's life before he
gives details of the events surrounding the time of his death. Jacob
lived seventeen more years in Egypt and s...
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_Brethren. Born of the same parents; similar in disposition. ---
Vessels; instruments. Septuagint and Chaldean, "they have completed
wickedness," as they read calu, instead of the present Hebrew cele,...
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Genesis 34:30. The Simeonites and Levites were scattered among the
other tribes. Joshua 21:3; Joshua 21:3; 1 Chronicles 6:24, etc....
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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5._Simeon and Levi are brethren_. He condemns the massacre of the city
of Shechem by his two sons Simon and Levi, and denounces the
punishment of so great a crime. Whence we learn how hateful cruelty...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 48, 49, AND 50.
Lastly, in chapter 48 besides the prophetical character important in
the history of Israel we see Joseph as heir; the double portion (mark
of...
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SIMEON AND LEVI ARE BROTHERS,.... Not because they were so in a
natural sense, being brethren both by father and mother's side, for
there were others so besides them; but because they were of like
tem...
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Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their
habitations.
Ver. 5. _Simeon and Levi are brethren._] _Nobile par fratrum_ _a_ not
more in nature than in iniquity. Here Moses bl...
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_Simeon and Levi are brethren_ In disposition, but unlike their
father: they were passionate and revengeful, fierce and wilful;
_instruments of cruelty are in their inhabitations_, or, as
מכרתיהם _mec...
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1 Iacob calleth his sonnes to blesse them.
3 Their blessing in particular.
29 He chargeth them about his buriall.
33 He dieth.
1 AND Iacob called vnto his sonnes, and said, Gather your selues
toge...
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Simeon and Levi are brethren, not only by parentage, but also in
character; they also were unfit for leadership. INSTRUMENTS OF CRUELTY
ARE IN THEIR HABITATIONS, the swords which they used in their re...
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The blessing upon Simeon and Levi...
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TENTH SECTION
_Jacob’s blessing of his sons. Judah and his brethren. Jacob’s
last arrangements. His burial in Canaan. His death._
GENESIS 49:1-33
1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yo...
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JACOB'S PROPHECY AS TO THE TWELVE TRIBES
(vs.1-28)
After a life of many failures and troubles, the last days of Jacob
stand out in bright relief. His perception of God's ways became much
more clear a...
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INSTRUMENTS OF CRUELTY:
Or, their swords are weapons of violence...
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3-7 Reuben was the first-born; but by gross sin, he forfeited the
birthright. The character of Reuben is, that he was unstable as water.
Men do not thrive, because they do not fix. Reuben's sin left...
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SIMEON AND LEVI ARE BRETHREN; not only by nature, but in iniquity; of
like cruel and bloody disposition, confederate in the same wicked
design, GENESIS 34:25. So the word _brother_ is elsewhere used,...
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On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a
more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view
Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
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Genesis 49:5 Simeon H8095 Levi H3878 brothers H251 Instruments H3627
cruelty H2555 place H4380
Simeon -...
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“Simeon and Levi are brothers,
Weapons of violence are their swords,
Oh my soul, do not come into their council,
Oh my glory, to their assembly do not be united.
For in their anger they slew man,...
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Genesis 48 and 49
_(with Deuteronomy 33and Judges 5)_
Jacob's blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal
dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does not
consist of...
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Genesis 49:5
From the history of Simeon and Levi we learn in many ways the evil
consequences of giving reins to our angry passions and wild desires.
It is needful to consider this, for these passions...
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Genesis 49:1. _And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you
in the last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of...
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L, 2. _And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
day. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; an...
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CONTENTS: Jacob's dying blessing, prophetic of the tribes of Israel.
CHARACTERS: Jacob, twelve sons.
CONCLUSION: It is a great blessing to attend upon Godly parents in
their last hours that we might...
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Genesis 49:2. _Gather yourselves together._ This phrase implies that
they should come purified, and prepared for instruction.
Genesis 49:3. _Reuben._ Jacob here seems to enumerate the excellencies
of...
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_Simeon and Levi are brethren_
THE BLESSING OF SIMEON AND LEVI:
I. THEIR SIN.
1. Immoderate revenge.
2. Cruelty to unoffending beasts.
3. Their cruelty was deliberate.
II. THEIR PENALTY.
1. To...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 49:5 Jacob’s statement regarding SIMEON
AND LEVI centers on their violent behavior (see ch. Genesis 34:1).
Their descendants will be scattered
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 49:4. Unstable as water.] Heb. _Boiling over as water._
Another form of this word is rendered _lightness,_ in Jeremiah 23:32;
Zephaniah 3:2, referring to the character of fals...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 49:1
AND JACOB (having closed his interview with Joseph and his two sons)
CALLED (by means of messengers) UNTO HIS SONS (_i.e._ the others who
were then absent), AND SAID, GATHER Y...
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And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that
I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days (Genesis
49:1).
This is probably the grandest hour of the old man Jaco...
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Simeon. Genesis 29:33 Genesis 29:34 Genesis 34:25 Genesis 46:10...
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Simeon and Levi are brethren — Brethren in disposition, but unlike
their father: they were passionate and revengeful, fierce and wilful;
their swords, that should have been only weapons of defence, we...
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How can Jacob pronounce a curse upon Levi here and yet Moses blessed
Levi in Deuteronomy 33:8-11?
PROBLEM: In Genesis 49:5-7, Jacob pronounces a curse upon Levi:
“Cursed be their [Simeon’s and Levi’s]...