GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 34 SHECHEM WANTS TO MARRY DINAH V1 Now Dinah was Leah’s daughter and her father was Jacob. Dinah went out to visit the women who lived in *Canaan. V2 And Shechem, who was Hamor’s son, saw her. Hamor was a Hivite and he was the prince of the distr... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Shechem’ was the name of the town. (See Genesis 33:18.) And ‘Shechem’ was also a man’s name. In this chapter, it is a man’s name. The Hivites were one of the *tribes that lived in Canaan before Abraham went there. V4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor. He said, ‘Get this young woman for me. She... [ Continue Reading ]
The marriage present was a present that the man’s family gave to the woman’s father. The gift was a present from the man’s family to the woman. So what Shechem said meant this. It meant, ‘Give Dinah to me as my wife. And I will give to you as much wealth as you ask.’ JACOB’S SONS DEFEND DINAH V13... [ Continue Reading ]
Jacob’s sons decided to tell lies so that they could kill the inhabitants of Shechem. They could not kill only Hamor. If they did that, all the other inhabitants would attack Jacob’s family. So they decided to kill all the inhabitants and not only Hamor. Jacob did not agree to this plan. We know tha... [ Continue Reading ]
For ‘*circumcised’ see Genesis 17:10-12 and the comment.... [ Continue Reading ]
This was a lie. It was a part of the brothers’ plan. Jacob and his family were not willing to marry *Canaanites. (For the question of marrying foreign women, see the comment on Genesis 38:2.)... [ Continue Reading ]
Jacob’s sons called Dinah ‘our daughter’. She was not their daughter. She was their sister. They might have meant that she was the daughter in their family. JACOB’S SONS KILL THE *CANAANITES V19 Shechem had more honour than all the other members of his family had. He did not delay, because he had... [ Continue Reading ]
There was a wall round the city. So anyone who entered or left the city had to go through the gate. Therefore, people often met each other at the gate. And the gate became the place where people sat and talked. And people might meet there to make decisions. So the gate was the best place to speak to... [ Continue Reading ]
These things were not true. They were the lies that Jacob’s sons had told to Hamor and Shechem. (See the end of verse 16.) And Hamor and Shechem believed them. But Hamor and Shechem were lying to the men of the city. They said that these things were the reason to *circumcise themselves. And the true... [ Continue Reading ]
‘On the third day’ does not mean 3 days later. The *Hebrews counted the first day and the last day. So the 3 days were: • The end of the day when they *circumcised the people • One whole day • The early morning of the next day That makes about 2 nights and a day.... [ Continue Reading ]
What Simeon and Levi did was an evil deed. Jacob said that it was wrong (in verse 30). He said that because he was afraid of the other *Canaanites. However, we know that the deed was evil from Genesis 49:5-7. In that verse, Jacob is giving his *blessing to his sons. The *blessing was true, because J... [ Continue Reading ]