Genesis 34:19
The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honoured above all the house of his father.
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18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
Cross References
Genesis 41:20The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
1 Samuel 22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who amongst all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honoured in your house?
1 Chronicles 4:9Jabez was more honourable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
Isaiah 3:3the captain of fifty, the honourable man, the counsellor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
Isaiah 23:8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honourable of the earth?
Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:19-25
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives,… Read the whole commentary →