_AND DINAH THE DAUGHTER OF LEAH, WHICH SHE BARE UNTO JACOB, WENT OUT TO SEE THE DAUGHTERS OF THE LAND._ Though freed from foreign troubles, Jacob met with a great domestic calamity in the fall of his only recorded daughter. According to Josephus, she had been attending a festival; but it is highly p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB HEARD THAT HE HAD DEFILED DINAH HIS DAUGHTER: NOW HIS SONS WERE WITH HIS CATTLE IN THE FIELD: AND_ _ JACOB HELD HIS PEACE UNTIL THEY WERE COME._ Jacob held his peace. Jacob, as a father and a good man, must have been deeply distressed. But he could do little. In the case of a family by d... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HAMOR COMMUNED WITH THEM, SAYING, THE SOUL OF MY SON SHECHEM LONGETH FOR YOUR DAUGHTER: I PRAY YOU GIVE HER HIM TO WIFE._ Hamor communed with them. The prince and his son seem at first sight to have acted honestly, and our feelings are enlisted on their side. They betray no jealousy of the pow... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MAKE YE MARRIAGES WITH US, AND GIVE YOUR DAUGHTERS UNTO US, AND TAKE OUR DAUGHTERS UNTO YOU._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL DWELL WITH US: AND THE LAND SHALL BE BEFORE YOU; DWELL AND TRADE YE THEREIN, AND GET YOU POSSESSIONS THEREIN._ Dwell and trade ye therein, х_ UWCCHAARUWHAA_ (H5503)] - and migrate as nomads, or, specially travel about as merchants х_ WªHEE'AACHªZUW_ (H270)], and be possessors. But the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHECHEM SAID UNTO HER FATHER AND UNTO HER BRETHREN, LET ME FIND GRACE IN YOUR EYES, AND WHAT YE SHALL SAY UNTO ME I WILL GIVE._ Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren. The consideration of the proposal for marriage belonged to Jacob, and he certainly showed great weakness in yieldi... [ Continue Reading ]
_ASK ME NEVER SO MUCH DOWRY AND GIFT, AND I WILL GIVE ACCORDING AS YE SHALL SAY UNTO ME: BUT GIVE ME THE DAMSEL TO WIFE._ ASK ME NEVER SO MUCH DOWRY AND GIFT, х_ MOHAR_ (H4119)] - the price paid for the wife. Though called a dowry in our translation, implying a suitable settlement upon her, the word... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF JACOB ANSWERED SHECHEM AND HAMOR HIS FATHER DECEITFULLY, AND SAID, BECAUSE HE HAD DEFILED DINAH THEIR SISTER:_ The sons of Jacob answered ... deceitfully. Many writers have taken the word "answered," spoke, as signifying, 'plotted, laid snares.' Gesenius, who formerly supported thi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SAID UNTO THEM, WE CANNOT DO THIS THING, TO GIVE OUR SISTER TO ONE THAT IS UNCIRCUMCISED; FOR THAT WERE A REPROACH UNTO US:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ THE YOUNG MAN ... WAS MORE HONOURABLE, [Hebrew, _ NIKBAAD_ (H3513)] - was held in honour more than all in his father's house. This is proleptical... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HAMOR AND SHECHEM HIS SON CAME UNTO THE GATE OF THEIR CITY, AND COMMUNED WITH THE MEN OF THEIR CITY, SAYING,_ Hamor and Shechem ... came unto the gate of their city. That was the place where every public communication was made; and in the ready, obsequious submission of the people to this meas... [ Continue Reading ]
_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, AND LET US GIVE THEM OUR DAUGHTERS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ On the third day, ... That period is critical, especially with adults, as fever generally en... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB SAID TO SIMEON AND LEVI, YE HAVE TROUBLED ME TO MAKE ME TO STINK AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND, AMONG THE CANAANITES AND THE PERIZZITES: AND I BEING FEW IN NUMBER, THEY SHALL GATHER THEMSELVES TOGETHER AGAINST ME, AND SLAY ME; AND I SHALL BE DESTROYED, I AND MY HOUSE._ Jacob said ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SAID, SHOULD HE DEAL WITH OUR SISTER AS WITH AN HARLOT?_ Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? The brothers were, by consuetudinary right, the guardians of the honour as well as the life of their sister (cf. 2 Samuel 13:22). And this ancient practice still obtains, as both Nie... [ Continue Reading ]