592 A SHORT YIEW OF SCRII'TCRE HISTORY. 65. Q. flow long did he live there ? A. Twenty years, till he had got a large family ofchildren and servants, much cat- tle, and great riches; Gen. xxx. and xxxi. 41. 66. Q. What did Jacob meet with in his return to Canaan ? Â. He had a vision of God as of a man wrestlingwith him ; Gen. xxxii.24-30. 67. Q. Why Was Jacob called Israel ? A. Because he prayed and prevailed with God for a blessing while he wrestled with him in the form of a man ; Gen. xxxii. 28. Hos. xii. 4. - 68. Q. flow did his brother Esau meet him ? A. God turned Esau's heart, so that he met him with great civility, though hé came out with four hundred men, as.Jacob feared, to destroy him ; Gen. xxxii. 6. xxxiii. 4. 69. Q. What posterity had Esau ? A. A large posterity, who chiefly inhabited mount Seir, and -were called Edomites, from their father's other name Edom ; Gen. xxvi. 8, 9. 70. Q. I3ow many sons had Jacob? A. Twelve, and they were called the twelve patriarchs, because they were the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel ; Gen. xxxv. 22. Acts vii. S. Num. ì. 4-16. 71. Q. What are their names ? A. Reuben, S meon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon, the sons of his wife Leah : Jo- seph and Benjamin, the sons of his wife Rachel : Dan and Naphtali, the sous of Bilhah his concubine ; and Gad and Asher, the sons of Zilpah his concubine ; Gen. xxxv. 23-26. 72. Q. Who were the most famous of all these in sacred history? A. Levi, Judah and Joseph. 73. Q. What is there remarkable concerning Levi ? A. The priesthood, and other things relating to the worship of-God, were committed to Levi's family in following times ; Dent. xviii. 2. and xxxiii. S, 10. 74. Q. But did not Levi do a very wicked thing in killing + the Shechemites? A. Yes, he and his brother Simeon dealt very treacherously and cruelly with them, in slaying them after they had made a covenant of peace with them ; Gen. xxxiv. 25-29. 75. Q. How did Jacob bear this? A. -He severely re- proved them for it, and upon his death-bed, by the spirit of prophecy, pronounced a curse upon them, that they should be se: tiered abroad through all the laud or Israel ; Gen. xxxiv. 30. and sGx 5. 76. Q. Was this' curse executed ? A. Yes, in some mea- sure, for the Sirneouitesas well as Levites had their possessions scattering among all the tribes of Israel ; but the curse of the Levites was lightened by their having the priesthood given them ; Josh. xxi. 77. Q. Wirst is there remarkable relating to Judah ? A. He dealt very basely with his daughter-in-law Tamar, and committed shameful wickedness; Gen. xxxviii. 16-26.
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