Genesis 49:7

Genesis 49:7

5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Instruments of¹ cruelty are in their dwelling place.

6 ^aLet not my soul enter their council;
Let not my honor be united ^bto their assembly;
^cFor in their anger they slew a man,
And in their self-will they¹ hamstrung an ox.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce;
And their wrath, for it is cruel!
^aI will divide them in Jacob
And scatter them in Israel.

8 “Judah,^a you are he whom your brothers shall praise;
^bYour hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
^cYour father’s children shall bow down before you.

9 Judah is ^aa lion’s whe¹lp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
^bHe bows down, he lies down as a lion;
And as a lion, who shall rouse him?

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Cursed be their anger - Not their persons. We ought always in the expressions of our zeal carefully to distinguish between the sinner and the sin, so as not to love or bless the sin for the sake of the person, nor to hate or curse the person for the sake of the sin. I will divide them - The Levites were scattered throughout all the tribes, and Simeon's lot lay not together, and was so strait that many of that tribe were forced to disperse themselves in quest of settlements and subsistence. This curse was afterwards turned into a blessing to the Levites; but the Simeonites, for Zimri's sin, Numbers 25:6-14, had it bound on.

**Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Genesis 49:7:**

Deuteronomy 33:1
Joshua 19:1
Joshua 21:3
1 Chronicles 4:27

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