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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]
English: A map of a Tribe of Simeon. One of the twelve tribes of Israel from 1658. עברית: מפה של שבט שמעון. משנת 1658. Date: 12 June 2006, 17:05:32:
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 Tribe of Simeon: An apocryphal midrash claims that the tribe was deported by the Babylonians to the Kingdom of Aksum (in what is now Ethiopia), to a place behind the dark mountains. [ 22 ] The Tribe of Ephraim: As part of the Kingdom of Israel , the territory of Ephraim was conquered by the Assyrians , and the tribe exiled; the manner of ...
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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.
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.