Person · one of several with this name
Simeon
Mentioned in 40 verses across 10 books, first in 2 Chronicles 15:9. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
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In the Bible
All 2 verses in 2 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 15:9
And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, along with those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for great numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
- 2 Chronicles 34:6
Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.
Events
Events the dataset lists Simeon as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 1757 BCBirth of Simeon
- c. 1728 BCJoseph sold to Egypt
- c. 1708 BC7 years of famine
- c. 1706 BCJoseph's brothers return to Egypt
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
The second son of Jacob by Leah (Gen. 29:33). He was associated with Levi in the terrible act of vengeance against Hamor and the Shechemites (34:25, 26). He was detained by Joseph in Egypt as a hostage (42:24). His father, when dying, pronounced a malediction against him (49:5-7). The words in the Authorized Version (49:6), “they digged down a wall,” ought to be, as correctly rendered in the Revised Version, “they houghed an ox.”