Text: Genesis 49:5-7 Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their knives!
6 O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen. (digged down a wall). Destroyed houses.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel!
Jacob didn't agree with what they done. He could have been accused of participating with them.
Weapons of violence are their knives. (swords) Swords are for defense not for abuse of others. They were passionate, revengeful, fierce, and uncontrollable.
Do not come into their council. A Book 1 (psalms 1:1-3)
Psalm 1[a]
1 How blessed[b] is the one[c] who does not follow[d] the advice[e] of the wicked,[f]
or stand in the pathway[g] with sinners,
or sit in the assembly[h] of scoffers.[i]
2 Instead[j] he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord's commands;[k]
he meditates on[l] his commands[m] day and night.
3 He is like[n] a tree planted by flowing streams;[o]
it[p] yields[q] its fruit at the proper time,[r]
and its leaves never fall off.[s]
He succeeds in everything he attempts.
Do not be united to their assembly.
In their anger they have killed men. Many sins start with anger.
Digged down a wall Destroyed houses. They killed the innocent, all by deceit.
Cursed be their anger. Ephesians 4:26
It was cruel. They went beyond justice. They were just mean.
Divide them in Jacob. scatter them in Israel.
Shalem a city in Shechem. Hears what they done.
Genesis 34
New English Translation
Dinah and the Shechemites God told Jacob to go to Bethel. Instead he went to Shalem.
34:1-31 Now Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.
2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.
3 Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.
4 Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Acquire this young girl as my wife."
6 Then Shechem's father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah. 7 Now Jacob's sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob's daughter, a crime that should not be committed.
How could this have been prevented?
Dinah's parents failed in their raising Dinah. They should have taught Dinah not to keep company with unbelievers.
8 But Hamor made this appeal to them: "My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
9 Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters and take our daughters as wives for yourselves. This arrangement Hardly ever works.
Shechem tries to make peaceful arrangements.
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I'll give.
12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive and I'll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!"
13 Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.
Why didn't Jacob stop this deceit?
14 They said to them, "We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.
15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.
16 Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people. 17 But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart."
18 Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
19 The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob's daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father's household.)
20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city.
21 "These men are at peace with us. So, let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.
22 Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.
23 If we do so, won't their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So, let's consent to their demand, so they will live among us."
24 All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.
25 In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.
26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.
27 Jacob's sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.
28 They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.
29 They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land—among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!
31 But Simeon and Levi replied, "Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?"
What happened to Simeon and Levi
Genesis 49:7 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel!
Levi apparently repented for his tribe became the spiritual leaders of Israel.
The tribe of Simeon became involved in Baal worship and never prospered.
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