through Nemuel, the Nemuelite clan;
through Jamin, the Jaminite clan;
through Jakin, the Jakinite clan;
13through Zerah, the Zerahite clan;
through Shaul, the Shaulite clan.
14These were the clans of Simeon; those numbered were 22,200.
“In the first census, the tribe of Simeon counted 59,300 men ready for war; 38 years later, they counted 22,000. This was staggering loss of 37,100 men for this once-great tribe (a loss of 63%).” (Guzik)
The consequence for rebelling was that all who were counted in the first census would die:
Numbers 14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
But how many descendants of Simeon died from the plague and Ba'al Peor?
We just don’t know because the Bible doesn’t tell us.
The tribe of Simeon had a sin and anger problem.
Do you?
Blessings
https://www.gotquestions.org/tribe-of-Simeon.html
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