Genesis 49:6

Jacob refuses to share in the fierce, self-willed anger that led Simeon and Levi to kill.

Cross-references · 26

• Gen 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
• Ps 26:9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
• Ps 16:9Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
• Gen 34:25–26And 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.
• 2 Cor 6:14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• Prov 1:15–16My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
• Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
• Jer 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
• Ps 57:8Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
• Jer 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Ps 64:2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
• Prov 1:11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
• Ps 103:1Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
• Ps 94:20–21Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
• Prov 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
• Judg 5:21The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
• Ps 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
• Ps 139:19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
• Ps 30:12To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
• Ps 28:3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
• Ps 5:10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
• Ps 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Ps 1:1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
• Deut 27:24Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Ps 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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