Genesis 34:19
And the youth did not delay to do this, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honourable above all in the house of his father.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.
Cross References
Genesis 41:20And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
1 Samuel 22:14And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?
1 Chronicles 4:9And Jabez was more honoured than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with pain.
Isaiah 3:3the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.
Isaiah 23:8Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?
Acts 13:50But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:19-25
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives,… Read the whole commentary →