Bible Verses About Tribe of Simeon: Plagued for following the idolatry, of Midian, which accounts for Their decrease
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And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers 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 the LORD his God was with him.
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
Verses on Plagued for following the idolatry, of Midian, which accounts for Their decrease
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.