Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, You⌃ have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Chananites and the Pherezites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
31And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as an harlot?
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.
Genesis 12:12It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see you, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall kill me, but they shall save you alive.
Genesis 28:13And the Lord + 28:13 Gr. was established. stood upon it, and said, I am the God of your father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
Genesis 49:5Symeon and Levi, brethren, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.
Deuteronomy 4:17the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,
Joshua 7:25And Joshua said to Achar, Why have you destroyed us? the Lord destroy you + 7:25 Gr. as also today. as at this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones.
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 →