(SEE 5:4)

After the circumcision was completed, the whole nation stayed in the camp until the wounds had healed.

She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "The LORD has given me this son also, because he heard that I was not loved"; so she named him Simeon.

Once again she became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She said, "Now my husband will be bound more tightly to me, because I have borne him three sons"; so she named him Levi.

"Simeon and Levi are brothers. They use their weapons to commit violence.

A curse be on their anger, because it is so fierce, And on their fury, because it is so cruel. I will scatter them throughout the land of Israel. I will disperse them among its people.

They attacked Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed all the men,

So now kill every boy and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse,

Wicked people cannot sleep unless they have done something wrong. They lie awake unless they have hurt someone.

A husband is never angrier than when he is jealous; his revenge knows no limits.

He will not accept any payment; no amount of gifts will satisfy his anger.

I will not join in their secret talks, Nor will I take part in their meetings, For they killed people in anger And they crippled bulls for sport.

But Hezekiah was too proud to show gratitude for what the LORD had done for him, and Judah and Jerusalem suffered for it.