Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Canaanites and the Perizzites, 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.
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In Context
31And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as a harlot?
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
Genesis 12:12It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall slay me, but they shall save thee alive.
Genesis 28:13And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi, brethren, 1 Accomplished the injustice of their cutting off. 1
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 Achan, Why hast thou destroyed us? the Lord destroy thee 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 →