SHIM'ON

 

   Name: Simeon

   Hebrew Name: Shim’on

   Father: Jacob

   Mother: LeahB

   Birth:  21st Day,  10th Month , 3rd Year,  3rd Week, 44th Jubilee   Simeon born of Leah     Jubilees 28::13

   Death: Goshen, Egypt  -  age 120 yrs old

   Sons: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman

   Numbers: Men over 20 - 22,200

 

 

  LEAH'S  STATEMENT:   

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, "Because the Lord hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also" and she called his name Simeon.   Genesis 29:33

 

 

  JACOB BLESSES SIMEON & LEVI:

“Simeon and Levi are brothers; Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place. Let not my soul enter their council; Let not my honor be united to their assembly; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hamstrung an ox.Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob And scatter them in Israel.”

 

 

Simeon's  sister Dinah is Raped

Simeon's  sister Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. Shechem fell in love with her and  asked Jacob and her brothers if he could marry her.

 

The Circumcision

They told him they would agree to the marriage if every male in the city would be circumcised,  But if they do not agree  then  they would take Dinah and leave.  So  Hamor and  Shechem agreed and  every male in the city  was circumcised.

 

Simeon & Levi:  Kill Hamor and Shechem

On the third day, when the men  were sore,  Levi and Simeon slew all the males. And they slew Hamor and Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and left. The sons of Jacob raveshed the city, because they had defiled their sister.  They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, and all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

  Jacob Was troubled

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. 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

 

Read the Full Story of Dinah Here

 

Joseph Detains Simeon

Simeon was so jealous he wanted to kill him but the brothers sold him into slavery instead. 

There was a great famine in the land and Jacob sent his sons to Egypt where Joseph was governor to buy food and did not recognize their brother Joseph.

Joseph detained Simeon and put him in prison.

Simeon Moves to Egypt along with his family.

 

 

Excerpt: The copy of the words of Simeon

the things which he spake to his sons before he died, in the hundred and twentieth year of his life,. For when Simeon was sick , his sons came to visit him, and he strengthened himself and sat up and kissed them, and said: My mother Leah called me Simeon, Because the Lord had heard her prayer

Moreover, I became strong exceedingly; I shrank from no achievement, Nor was I afraid of ought.For my heart was hard, And my liver was immovable, And my bowels without compassion. Because valour also has been given from the Most High to men in soul and body.

  Jealousy

For in the time of my youth I was jealous in many things of Joseph, because my father loved him beyond all.  Joseph comely in appearance and goodly to look upon, because no wickedness  dwelt in him.    I set my mind against him to destroy him, because the prince of deceit sent forth the spirit of jealousy and blinded my mind, so that I regarded him not as a brother, nor did I spare even  Jacob my father. But his God and the God of his fathers sent forth His angel, and delivered him out of my hands. For when I went to Shechem to bring ointment for the flocks, and Reuben to Dothan, where were our necessaries and all our stores, Judah my brother sold him to the Ishmaelites.

And when Reuben heard these things he was grieved, for he wished to restore him to his father. But on hearing this I was exceedingly wroth against Judah in that he let him go away alive, and for five months I continued wrathful against him. But the Lord restrained me, and withheld from me the power of my hands; for my right hand was half withered for seven days.

 My Hand Withered

The Lord restrained me, and withheld from me the power of my hands; for my right hand was half withered for seven days.  And I knew, my children, that because of Joseph this had befallen me, and I repented and wept; and I besought the Lord God that my hand might be restored, and that I might hold aloof from all pollution and envy and from all folly. For I knew that I had devised an evil thing before the Lord and Jacob my father, on account of Joseph my brother, in that I envied him.

Deceit and Envy

And now, my children, hearken unto me and beware of the spirit of deceit and envy. For envy ruleth over the whole mind of a man, and suffereth him neither to eat nor to drink, nor to do any good thing. But it ever suggesteth (to him) to destroy him that he envieth; and so long as he that 4 is envied flourisheth, he that envieth fadeth away.

 Simeon Repents

Two years therefore I afflicted my soul with fasting in the fear of the Lord, and I learnt that deliverance from envy cometh by the fear of God For if a man flee to The Lord, the evil spirit runneth away from him, and his mind is lightened. And henceforward he sympathiseth with him whom he envied and forgiveth those who arehostile to him, and so ceaseth from his envy.

  And my father asked Concerning me, because he saw that I was sad; and I said unto him, I am pained in my liver. For I mourned more than they all, because I was guilty of the selling of Joseph. And when we went down into Egypt, and he bound me as a spy, I knew that I was suffering justly, and I grieved not. Now Joseph was a good man.

  Advice

Do ye also, my children, love each one his brother with a good heart and the spirit of envy will withdraw from you. For this maketh savage the soul and destroyeth the body; it causeth anger and war in the mind, and stirreth up unto deeds of blood, and leadeth the mind into frenzy, and suffereth not prudence to act in men; moreover, it taketh away sleep,and causeth tumult to the soul and trembling to the body 

 

 Death of Simeon

And when Simeon had made an end of commanding his sons, he slept with his fathers, being an hundred and twenty years old. And they laid him in a wooden coffin, to take up his bones to Hebron.

 

 

 "Testament of the Twelve Patriachs" by R. H. Charles

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