SIMEON

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• Genesis 29:33

  She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob 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.”

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 42:24

  He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

• Genesis 42:36

  Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

• Genesis 43:23

  He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

• Genesis 46:10

  The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

• Genesis 49:5

  “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

• Genesis 49:6

  My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

• Genesis 49:7

  Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

• Exodus 1:1

  Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

• Exodus 1:2

  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

• Exodus 6:15

  The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

• Numbers 1:22

  Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

• Numbers 1:23

  those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 2:12

  “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

• Numbers 2:13

  His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 10:18

  The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

• Numbers 10:19

  Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.

• Numbers 26:12

  The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

• Numbers 26:13

  of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

• Numbers 26:14

  These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

• Deuteronomy 27:12

  “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

• Joshua 19:1

  The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

• Joshua 19:2

  They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

• Joshua 19:3

  Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,

• Joshua 19:4

  Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,

• Joshua 19:5

  Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,

• Joshua 19:6

  Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

• Joshua 19:7

  Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;

• Joshua 19:8

  and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

• Joshua 19:9

  Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the middle of their inheritance.

• Judges 1:3

  Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.

• Judges 1:4

  Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.

• Judges 1:5

  They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

• Judges 1:6

  But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

• Judges 1:7

  Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• Judges 1:8

  The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

• Judges 1:9

  After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

• Judges 1:10

  Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

• Judges 1:11

  From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

• Judges 1:12

  Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

• Judges 1:13

  Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

• Judges 1:14

  When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She dismounted from off of her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

• Judges 1:15

  She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

• Judges 1:16

  The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

• Judges 1:17

  Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

• 1 Chronicles 2:1

  These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

• 1 Chronicles 4:24

  The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

• 1 Chronicles 4:25

  Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.

• 1 Chronicles 4:26

  The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

• 1 Chronicles 4:27

  Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family did not multiply like the children of Judah.

• 1 Chronicles 4:28

  They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,

• 1 Chronicles 4:29

  at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,

• 1 Chronicles 4:30

  at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,

• 1 Chronicles 4:31

  at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign.

• 1 Chronicles 4:32

  Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

• 1 Chronicles 4:33

  and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.

• 1 Chronicles 4:34

  Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,

• 1 Chronicles 4:35

  Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

• 1 Chronicles 4:36

  Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,

• 1 Chronicles 4:37

  and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah —

• 1 Chronicles 4:38

  these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

• 1 Chronicles 4:39

  They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

• 1 Chronicles 4:40

  They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.

• 1 Chronicles 4:41

  These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

• 1 Chronicles 4:42

  Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

• 1 Chronicles 4:43

  They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

• 1 Chronicles 49:5
• 1 Chronicles 49:6
• 1 Chronicles 49:7
• 2 Chronicles 15:1

  The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:

• 2 Chronicles 15:2

  and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

• 2 Chronicles 15:3

  Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

• 2 Chronicles 15:4

  But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

• 2 Chronicles 15:5

  In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

• 2 Chronicles 15:6

  They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

• 2 Chronicles 15:7

  But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

• 2 Chronicles 15:8

  When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.

• 2 Chronicles 15:9

  He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

• 2 Chronicles 15:10

  So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

• 2 Chronicles 15:11

  They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.

• 2 Chronicles 15:12

  They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

• 2 Chronicles 15:13

  and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

• 2 Chronicles 15:14

  They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.

• 2 Chronicles 15:15

  All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

• 2 Chronicles 34:1

  Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:2

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:5

  He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:6

  He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.

• Luke 2:25

  Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

• Luke 2:26

  It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

• Luke 2:27

  He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,

• Luke 2:28

  then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

• Luke 2:29

  “Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

• Luke 2:30

  for my eyes have seen your salvation,

• Luke 2:31

  which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;

• Luke 2:32

  a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

• Luke 2:33

  Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,

• Luke 2:34

  and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

• Luke 2:35

  Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

• Luke 3:30

  the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,

• Acts 13:1

  Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

• Acts 15:14

  Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.