Genesis 34:30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, to make me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. If they gather themselves together against me and attack me, then I will be destroyed, I and my household.”
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31But Simeon and Levi said, “Should Shechem have dealt with our sister as with a prostitute?”
Cross References
Genesis 12:2I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:12When the Egyptians see you they will say, 'This is his wife,' and they will kill me, but they will keep you alive.
Genesis 28:13Behold, Yahweh stood above it and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.
Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers. 1 Weapons of violence are their swords. 1
Deuteronomy 4:17the likeness of any animal on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,
Joshua 7:25Then Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones. Then they stoned the rest with stones and burned them with fire.
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 →