Genesis 49:6

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

Cross-references · 26

• Gen 34:30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
• Ps 26:9Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
• Ps 16:9Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.
• Gen 34:25–26On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
• 2 Cor 6:14Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
• Prov 1:15–16My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
• Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
• Jer 15:17I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
• Ps 57:8Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
• Jer 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can’t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Ps 64:2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
• Prov 1:11If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
• Ps 103:1By David. Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
• Ps 94:20–21Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
• Prov 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
• Judg 5:21The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
• Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
• Ps 139:19If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
• Ps 30:12To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
• Ps 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
• Ps 5:10Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.
• Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
• Ps 1:1Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
• Deut 27:24‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
• Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

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