“And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.”
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: you have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed. Jacob's rebuke is almost entirely about consequences to himself — you have brought trouble on me — rather than about the moral wrong of what was done. The application: the condemnation of Simeon and Levi that focuses primarily on the danger to Jacob is the condemnation of prudential self-interest, not prophetic moral judgment.
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