Genesis 49:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Simeon and Levi are brethren; instrumentsa of cruelty are in their habitations. ”

• Genesis 49:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Jacob Blesses His Sons 5. מכרה m e kêrāh , “weapon;” related: כיר kārar or כרה kārāh dig. “Device, design?” related: מכר mākar “sell,” in Arabic “take counsel. Habitat...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Blessing of Jacob. This poem had an independent origin, but if it was incorporated in one of the main documents it would be in J. It is not a mere collection of originally isolated utterances o...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  5. Simeon and Levi are brethren. He condemns the massacre of the city of Shechem by his two sons Simon and Levi, and denounces the punishment of so great a crime. Whence we learn how hateful...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. Simeon and Levi are brethren - Not only springing from the same parents, but they have the same kind or disposition,...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Simeon and Levi are brethren— That is, fellows in wickedness. אחים achim, rendered brethren, is used for persons of the same turn of mind. See Proverbs 18:9 ; Proverbs 18:24 . Jacob intimates...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. Simeon and Levi are brethren - i:e., united by similar dispositions as by blood relationship. Instruments of...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jacob Blesses his Twelve Sons It is generally considered that in its present form, this chapter gives us indeed the last utterances of the dying patriarch respecting the future of his sons, but wi...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Simeon and Levi are brethren. — That is, they are alike in character and disposition. Despising the feeble Reuben, they seem to have been close friends and allies, and probably tried to exercise a...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE BLESSINGS OF THE TRIBES Genesis 48:1-22 ; Genesis 49:1-33 JACOB'S blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jacob Foretells the Future of His Sons Genesis 49:1-13 Once more Joseph visited his father's dying-bed. This was the third time and the last. He stood as one of twelve strong bearded men, gathe...

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• Genesis 49:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Before his passing, Jacob, in forecasting the future of his sons, based what he had to say on what he had already seen in them. In some cases the allusions are difficult to follow, and the connection...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Genesis 34:30 . The Simeonites and Levites were scattered among the other tribes. Joshua 21:3 ; Joshua 21:3 ; 1 Chronicles 6:24 , etc.

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• Genesis 49:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Simeon and Levi are brothers ,.... Not because they were so in a natural sense, being brethren both by father and mother's side, for there were others so besides them; but because they were of like...

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• Genesis 49:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations. Ver. 5. Simeon and Levi are brethren. ] Nobile par fratrum a not more in nature than in iniquity. Here Moses...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Simeon and Levi are brethren In disposition, but unlike their father: they were passionate and revengeful, fierce and wilful; instruments of cruelty are in their inhabitations , or, as מכרתיהם me...

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• Genesis 49:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JACOB'S PROPHECY AS TO THE TWELVE TRIBES (vs.1-28) After a life of many failures and troubles, the last days of Jacob stand out in bright relief. His perception of God's ways became much more cle...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.   6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Simeon and Levi are brethren; not only by nature, but in iniquity; of like cruel and bloody disposition, confederate in the same wicked design, Genesis 34:25 . So the word brother is elsewhere...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Simeon and Levi are brothers, Weapons of violence are their swords, Oh my soul, do not come into their council, Oh my glory, to their assembly do not be united. For in their anger they slew...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 49:4 . Unstable as water.] Heb. Boiling over as water. Another form of this word is rendered lightness, in Jeremiah 23:32 ; Zephaniah 3:2 , referring to the charact...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Genesis 48 and 49 (with Deuteronomy 33 and Judges 5 ) Jacob's blessing of his sons marks the close of the patriarchal dispensation. Henceforth the channel of God's blessing to man does not co...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  l, 2. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last day. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 49:2 . Gather yourselves together. This phrase implies that they should come purified, and prepared for instruction. Genesis 49:3 . Reuben. Jacob here seems to enumerate the excellenci...

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• Genesis 49:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Simeon and Levi are brethren The blessing of Simeon and Levi: I. THEIR SIN. 1. Immoderate revenge. 2. Cruelty to unoffending beasts. 3. Their cruelty was deliberate. II. THEIR PENAL...

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• Genesis 49:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 49:1 And Jacob (having closed his interview with Joseph and his two sons) called (by means of messengers) unto his sons ( i.e. the others who were then absent), a...

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• Genesis 49:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Simeon and Levi are brethren, not only by parentage, but also in character; they also were unfit for leadership. Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations, the swords which they used in their...

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• Genesis 49:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Simeon. Genesis 29:33 Genesis 29:34 Genesis 34:25-29 Genesis 46:10 Genesis 46:11 Proverbs 18:9 instruments, etc. or, their swords are weapons of violence. Genesis 34:25-29

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• Genesis 49:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Simeon and Levi are brethren — Brethren in disposition, but unlike their father: they were passionate and revengeful, fierce and wilful; their swords, that should have been only weapons of defence,...

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