Genesis 34:30
And Jakob said to Shemeon and Levi, You have troubled me, in putting strife between me and the inhabitants of the land, the Kenaanites and the Perrezites, and I a people (few) for number; and they will gather against me, and smite me, and I shall perish, I and the men of my house.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
31And they said, As with an outcast should he deal with our sister?
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make thee to (be) a great people, and will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
Genesis 12:12And it will be that when the Mizraee see thee they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and thee will they reserve.
Genesis 28:13and, behold, the Glory of the Lord stood above it, and He said, I am the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak. The land where thou sleepest, unto thee will I give it, and unto thy sons.
Genesis 49:5Shimeon and Levi are brothers; mighty men in the land of their sojourning, they did mightily.
Deuteronomy 4:17of any beast on the ground, or of any bird which flieth in the air of the expanse of the skies,
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 →