Genesis 34:4
He went and asked his father, “Get this young girl for me so I can marry her.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
In Context
3However, then he fell deeply in love with Dinah and tried to get her to love him too.
Cross References
Judges 14:2He went back home and told his father and mother, “A Philistine woman in Timnah caught my attention. Now get her for me because I want to marry her.”
Jeremiah 29:6Get married and have children. Arrange for your children to get married so they can have children too. Increase in number, don't decrease.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:2-6
Dinah Dishonoured. ( b. c. 1732.) 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter:… Read the whole commentary →