Genesis 34:13
Jacob's sons weren't honest when they answered him and his father Hamor because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.
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Genesis 25:27The boys grew up and Esau became a skilled hunter, at home in the countryside. Jacob was quiet and liked to stay at home in the tents.
2 Samuel 13:23Some two years later, when his sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, Absalom invited all the king's sons to join the celebrations.
Job 13:7Do you think you can tell lies to defend God? Are you talking deceitfully on his behalf?
Proverbs 12:13The wicked trap themselves by their own sinful words, but good people escape trouble.
Proverbs 24:28Don't testify against your neighbors without having a good reason, and don't tell lies.
Isaiah 59:13We have disobeyed and denied you, Lord; we have turned our backs on our God. We have encouraged oppression and rebellion, telling lies we've carefully thought out.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:7-18
Treachery of Dinah's Brethren. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your… Read the whole commentary →