Genesis 49:5-7 Simeon and Levi, cursed be their anger!

5Simeon and Levi are brothers;

their swordsare weapons of violence.

6May I never enter their council;

may I never join their assembly.

For they kill men in their anger,

and hamstring oxen on a whim.

7Cursed be their anger, for it is strong,

and their wrath, for it is cruel!

I will disperse them in Jacob

and scatter them in Israel.

Genesis 34:25Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male. 26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

Ephesians 4:26”Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

The tribe of Simeon started out from Egypt being the third largest tribe.

Numbers 1:23 those registered to the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

But some 35 years later they became the smallest tribe.

Numbers 26:14 These were the clans of Simeon, and there were 22,200 men.

Both the tribes of Simeon and Levi were scattered and both were cursed but the tribe of Levi gained a blessing.

“Happy is that man who, though he begins with a dark shadow resting upon him, so lives as to turn even that shadow into bright sunlight. Levi gained a blessing at the hands of Moses, one of the richest blessings of any of the tribes” (Spurgeon).

Moses was from the tribe of Levi.

The tribe of Levi turned a curse into a blessing, they were still scattered but they worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

Do you let the sun set upon your anger?

Blessings, David