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Map of the twelve tribes of Israel; Simeon is shaded gold, in the south Map of Simeon's territory (east is on the top of the map). According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe consisted of descendants of Simeon, the second son of Jacob and of Leah, from whom it took its name. [4]
Simeon (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן, Modern: Šīmʾōn, Tiberian: Šīmʾōn) [1] was the second of the six sons of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite tribe, The Tribe of Simeon, according to the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. Biblical scholars regard the tribe as having been part of the original Israelite confederation. The ...
The city of Dan (not to be confused with the Tribe of Dan) is in the northern part of Naphtali's territory. Beersheba is in Simeon's territory. From Dan to Beersheba is a biblical phrase used nine times [1] in the Hebrew Bible to refer to the settled areas of the Tribes of Israel between Dan in the North and Beersheba in the South.
English: Map of the territories allotted to the twelve tribes of Israel according to the Book of Joshua, chapters 13–19, before Dan moved northward. Some tribes had trouble conquering their allotted territories; the map does not show successful conquests.
Descriptions of the boundaries of the tribes of Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Dan. The territory of the tribe of Dan is too small for them so they attack Leshem, slaughtering its inhabitants, and refound it under the name Dan. Joshua himself is given Timnathserah, which he has requested, in the territory of Ephraim.
Map of the twelve tribes of Israel (before the move of Dan to the north), based on the Book of Joshua, c. 1200–1050 BCE. Transjordan (Hebrew: עבר הירדן, Ever HaYarden) is an area of land in the Southern Levant lying east of the Jordan River valley. It is also alternatively called Gilead.
Joshua 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible or in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to Joshua, with additions by the high priests Eleazar and Phinehas, [2] [3] but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to ...
Regarding the tribe of Reuben, there is only a prayer: "May Reuben live and not die, / Though few be his numbers." (verse 6). The tribe of Simeon seems to be omitted, but this is explained by Joshua 19:1: "The portion of the tribe of the Simeonites, by their clans, lay inside the portion of the Judahites." For Judah, Moses prays that the Lord ...