Gen 49:7 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 7. Cursed was their anger ] The first motions of their violence were savage; and their excessive or overflowing wrath , ebrah, for it was inflexible -neither the supplications of the males, nor the entreaties, tears, cries, and shrieks of the helpless females, could deter them from their murderous purpose ; for this, , they are said to have accomplished . I will divide them out , achallekem, I will make them into lots , giving a portion of them to one tribe, and a portion to another; but they shall never attain to any political consequence. This appears to have been literally fulfilled. Levi had no inheritance except forty-eight cities, scattered through different parts of the land of Canaan: and as to the tribe of Simeon, it is generally believed among the Jews that they became schoolmasters to the other tribes; and when they entered Canaan they had only a small portion, a few towns and villages in the worst part of Judah's lot, , which afterwards finding too little, they formed different colonies in districts which they conquered from the Idumeans and Amalekites , , &c. Thus these two tribes were not only separated from each other , but even divided from themselves , according to this prediction of Jacob.

‏ Genesis 49:7

Verse 7. Cursed was their anger] The first motions of their violence were savage; and their excessive or overflowing wrath, ebrah, for it was inflexible-neither the supplications of the males, nor the entreaties, tears, cries, and shrieks of the helpless females, could deter them from their murderous purpose; for this, Ge 49:5, they are said to have accomplished.

I will divide them out, achallekem, I will make them into lots, giving a portion of them to one tribe, and a portion to another; but they shall never attain to any political consequence. This appears to have been literally fulfilled. Levi had no inheritance except forty-eight cities, scattered through different parts of the land of Canaan: and as to the tribe of Simeon, it is generally believed among the Jews that they became schoolmasters to the other tribes; and when they entered Canaan they had only a small portion, a few towns and villages in the worst part of Judah's lot, Jos 19:1, which afterwards finding too little, they formed different colonies in districts which they conquered from the Idumeans and Amalekites, 1Ch 4:39, &c. Thus these two tribes were not only separated from each other, but even divided from themselves, according to this prediction of Jacob.