Genesis 34:30
When they had boldly completed these acts, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have troubled me, and you have made me hateful to the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few. They, gathering themselves together, may strike me down, and then both I and my house will be wiped away.”
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29they also took their little ones and their wives captive.
31They responded, “Should they abuse our sister like a prostitute?”
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
Genesis 12:12And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you.
Genesis 28:13and the Lord, leaning upon the ladder, saying to him: “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land, in which you sleep, I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 49:5The brothers Simeon and Levi: vessels of iniquity waging war.
Deuteronomy 4:17a likeness of any of the beasts, which are upon the earth, or of birds, which fly under heaven,
Joshua 7:25There, Joshua said: “Because you have troubled us, the Lord troubles you, on this day.” And all of Israel stoned him. And all the things that were his were consumed by fire.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:26-31
Murder of the Shechemites. ( b. c. 1732.) 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen,… Read the whole commentary →