Genesis 34:30
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.
Genesis 34:30 records Jacob reproving Simeon and Levi after their deceitful, cruel and revengeful slaughter and destruction of the Shechemites. Jacob had not known of the killing until it was done, and God did not sanction it. At that time his sons were not all righteous but were in some degree affected with idolatry.
By his words Jacob meant his sons had made him hated and despised among the inhabitants of the land, including the Canaanites and the Perizzites and other peoples. The rebuke expresses his grief, alarm and abhorrence at their deceit and violence. He feared that because his household was few in number, the surrounding peoples and nations would in indignation gather together against him, attack him, slay him and destroy him and his house. In that distress over the danger, Jacob called upon God again.
Their fierce and cruel anger was later condemned by the prophecy that they would be divided and scattered in Israel, a sentence incurred both by this violence and by their later guilt in selling Joseph. That scattering was fulfilled in Simeon becoming the smallest tribe and receiving only a small portion within Judah's territory, and in Levi receiving scattered cities rather than a tribal inheritance. Levi's later faithfulness to God turned its curse into a blessing through sacred service.