Bible Verses About The Tribe Of Simeon

And the second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,

and Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Ezem,

and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,

and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,

and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:

and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual,

and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

and all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.

And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they that dwelt there aforetime were of Ham.

And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

And they smote the remnant of the Amalekites that escaped, and have dwelt there unto this day.

Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.

Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah:

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.