What Does the Bible Say About Simeon The Tribe Of?

“And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. Simeon: that is, Hearing”

“Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. instruments: or, their swords are weapons of violence”

“O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. digged: or, houghed oxen”

“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.”

“Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.”

“Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;”

“Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.”

“And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.”

“And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.”

“On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:”

“His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:”

“One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:”

“One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:”

“One kid of the goats for a sin offering:”

“And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.”

“And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.”

“And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.”

“Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.”

“And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.”

“Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. chief: Heb. house of a father”

“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:”

“Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.”

“These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.”

“And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.”

“These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:”

“And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.”

“And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,”

“And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,”

“And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,”

“And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,”

“And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:”

“Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:”

“And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.”

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

“And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.”

“And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,”

“And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, Bilhah: or, Balah Tolad: or, Eltolad”

“And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,”

“And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. Hazarsusim: or, Hazarsusah”

“And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: Etam: or, Ether”

“And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy. Baal: or, Baalathbeer their genealogy: or, as they divided themselves by nations among them”

“And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.”

“And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide , and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.”

“And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.”

“And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.”

“And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.”

“Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.”

“Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:”

“And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.”

“And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. mattocks: or, mauls”