(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Joshua 19:1–9, “And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem, And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah, And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.”
Simeon was Jacob’s second son but he along with his older and younger brother’s Reuben and Levi managed to lose their places of prominence among Israel’s sons. Reuben the firstborn acted lewdly with one of his father’s concubines while Simeon on Levi both caused their father grief by murdering all the people in a local town near to their camping place. They were both told that they would be scattered in Israel when Jacob gave his last blessings and predictions to his sons before he died. (Gen 49:5–7, “Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.”) Even though this prediction was made hundreds of years before the tribes were allocated it came true. Levi didn’t have an inheritance at all because they were the priestly tribe and, we can, see that Simeon’s inheritance was scattered in the middle of Judah’s inheritance.
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