Simon

Also known as: Shime'on · Family: Jacob's family · Role: son · First appears: The Birth Of Jacob's Children

Leah bore Jacob’s second son, Shime’on, and named him “Yonder is sin.” During the outrage at Shechem, Simon and Levi deceitfully agreed to Hamor and Shechem’s marriage request while asking that Dinah be left alone until they consulted Isaac. They swore that no one in the city would remain alive by the next day, then killed its males and took its women, children, and livestock to Jacob. Among the captives, Simon took Bunah as his wife.

Later, during Esau’s campaign against Jacob, Simon joined his brothers in defeating Esau’s army and besieging the fugitives on Mount Seir. The sons of Esau and the other fugitives eventually submitted to peace and paid tribute. In a later confrontation, Judah defended Simon and Levi’s killing of Shechem’s inhabitants, saying the city had failed to intervene after Shechem dishonored their sister.

Relationship record

Life events

• Leah bore her second son, Shime'on.(The Birth Of Jacob's Children)
  • With: Leah Jacob
  • “Leah called her second son Shime'on, ‘Yonder is sin,’”
• Simon and Levi deceitfully agreed to the marriage request while asking that Dinah be left alone pending Isaac's counsel.(The Outrage At Shechem)
  • With: Levi Shechem Hamor
  • “Simon and Levi answered Hamor and Shechem deceitfully, saying: “All you have spoken unto us we will do. And, behold, our sister is in your house, but keep away from her until we send to our father Isaac concerning this matter”
• Simon and Levi swore that they would leave no one alive in the city.(The Outrage At Shechem)
  • With: Levi
  • “Simon and Levi swore, and said, ‘As the Lord liveth, by to-morrow there shall not be a remnant left In the whole city.’”
• Simon and Levi killed the city's males, leaving none alive.(The Outrage At Shechem)
  • With: Levi
  • “Then Simon and Levi slew all the city, not leaving a male over”
• Simon and Levi took the city's women and children captive along with its livestock.(The Outrage At Shechem)
  • With: Levi
  • “Then they took away from the people outside of the city their sheep, their oxen, their cattle, and also the women and the little children, and they led all these away, and took them to the city to their father Jacob.”
• Simon took Bunah, a captive, as his wife.(The Outrage At Shechem)
  • With: Bunah
  • “among them a young damsel of great beauty by the name of Bunah, whom Simon took to wife.”
• Jacob's sons defeated Esau's army, pursued the fugitives, and besieged them on Mount Seir.(Esau's Campaign Against Jacob · 📍 Mount Seir)
  • With: Jacob Judah Naphtali Gad Levi Dan Reuben Issachar Zebulon Benjamin Enoch (son of Reuben) Reuel Jeush Lotan Korah
  • “Four hundred were slain in battle, and six hundred fled, among the latter Esau's four sons, Reuel, Jeush, Lotan, and Korah.”
• Esau's sons and the fugitives submitted to peace and agreed to pay tribute.(Esau's Campaign Against Jacob · 📍 Mount Seir)
  • With: Jacob Judah Naphtali Gad Levi Dan Reuben Issachar Zebulon Benjamin Enoch (son of Reuben) Reuel Jeush Lotan Korah
  • “Now the sons of Esau and all the other fugitives came and fell down before them, bowed down, and entreated them without cease, until they concluded peace with them. But the sons of Jacob exacted tribute from them.”

The Birth Of Jacob's Children

• parent: Jacob “Leah called her second son Shime'on”
• parent: Leah “Leah called her second son Shime'on”

Jacob Wrestles With The Angel

• parent: Jacob “Jacob proceeded to pass his sons in review: Reuben, Joseph, Dan, and Gad being the first-born, each of his mother, were exempt, and there remained but eight sons, and when he had named them, down to Benjamin, he had to go back and begin over again with Simon, the ninth, and finish with Levi as the tenth.”

The Outrage At Shechem

• parent: Jacob “Then Simon and Levi slew all the city”
• siblings with Levi “Then Simon and Levi slew all the city”
• married with Bunah “among them a young damsel of great beauty by the name of Bunah, whom Simon took to wife”

A War Frustrated

• parent: Jacob “And Jacob was greatly afraid, and he said to Simon and Levi, ‘Why have you brought such evil upon me? I was at rest, and you provoked the inhabitants of the land against me by your acts.’”
• siblings with Judah “Then Judah spoke to his father: “Was it for naught that Simon and Levi killed the inhabitants of Shechem? Verily, it was because Shechem dishonored our sister, and transgressed the command of our God to Noah and his children, and not one of the inhabitants of the city interfered in the matter. Now, why art thou afraid, and why art thou displeased at my brethren?”
• siblings with Levi “And Jacob was greatly afraid, and he said to Simon and Levi, ‘Why have you brought such evil upon me? I was at rest, and you provoked the inhabitants of the land against me by your acts.’”

The War With The Ninevites

• parent: Jacob “If two sons of Jacob had succeeded in ruining a great city like Shechem, they argued, what would Jacob and all his sons accomplish acting together?”

Esau's Campaign Against Jacob

• parent: Jacob “Simon, Benjamin, and Enoch, the last the son of Reuben, with fifty servants, to the west”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.