i. The most southerly frontier was assigned first to Judah but

afterwards to SIMEON (Josh. xix. 9), and is often called in Scripture _the South_ (Josh. x. 40; Judg. i. 9). Like Reuben on the east of Jordan, Simeon was destined to have little influence on the subsequent history, to be _divided in Jacob and scattered in Israel_ (Gen. xlix. 5–7), and to be constantly exposed to the attacks of the Amalekites and other nomadic tribes on its frontier (comp. 1 Chron. iv. 39–43).