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Genesis 34:1-31

GENESIS—NOTE ON Genesis 34:1 Almost as soon as Jacob returns to Canaan, an incident threatens the future security of his family. While the rape of Dinah by Shechem is inexcusable, the retribution by Simeon and Levi far exceeds the crime. Jacob is very conscious of how their actions have endangered his entire household.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXXIV. Dinah, _the daughter of Jacob and Leah, going out to_ _see the daughters of the land, is ravished by Shechem_, _the son of Hamor_, 1, 2. _He entreats his father to get her for him t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Genesis 34:1 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 34 DEFILEMENT OF DINAH _ 1. The defilement (Genesis 34:1)_ 2. Hamor's proposal (Genesis 34:4) 3. The deceitful answer of Jacob's sons (Genesis 34:13) 4. The males of Shechem slain ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 34. SHECHEM'S OUTRAGE ON DINAH AVENGED. It is generally agreed that two sources have been used, but much uncertainty prevails as to their identity and extent, while in view of the priestly phr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Dinah_ See Genesis 30:21; Genesis 31:41, from which passages the age of Dinah at the time of Jacob's flight from Haran may be computed. She was nearly the last of Jacob's children born in Haran....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND DINAH THE DAUGHTER OF LEAH, &C.— See note on Genesis 34:18 of the preceding chapter. Though we cannot ascertain the exact time of this fact, it must have been at least seven or eight years after J...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-THREE THE STORY OF JACOB: INCIDENTS IN CANAAN (Genesis 34:1 to Genesis 35:28) The Biblical Account 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob went out to see the daughters...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISHONOUR DONE TO DINAH, AND THE CRAFTY REVENGE OF SIMEON AND LEVI 1. Went out to see the daughters of the land] According to Josephus there was a festival among the Canaanites at Shechem....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXXIV. (1) DINAH... WENT OUT TO SEE THE DAUGHTERS OF THE LAND. — Those commentators who imagine that Jacob sojourned only twenty years at Haran are obliged to suppose that he remained two or more year...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תֵּצֵ֤א דִינָה֙ בַּת ־לֵאָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָלְד

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JACOB WITH THE SHECHEMITES Genesis 33:18; Genesis 34:1 Jacob was tempted by the fat pastures of Shechem, without thought or care of the character of its people, and he lived to bitterly rue his choic...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    When Jacob parted from Esau he should have gone directly to Beth-el. The previous chapter shows that he did not do so but tarried at Shechem. Unquestionably, this was a mistake. There is nothing more...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    A TRAGIC INCIDENT The move to Shechem (Genesis 33:18-20) proved to be a costly one. Dinah, Leah's daughter, was abducted and raped by Shechem the son of Hamor. He also truly fell in love with her. So,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, (a) went out to see the daughters of the land. (a) This example teaches us that too much liberty is not to be given to youth....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Country, when a great festival was celebrated. (Josephus, Antiquities i. 18.) Dina was urged by curiosity to see and to be seen. Let others take example from her, and beware of associating with infid...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS Hitherto the Patriarch Jacob had been exercised with many sharp and trying afflictions, as they arose out of the circumstances of his own life. In this chapter, the history of the Patriarch r...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._And Dinah... went out_. This chapter records a severe contest, with which God again exercised his servant. How precious the chastity of his daughter would be to him, we may readily conjecture from...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    Ver. 1 AND DINAH THE DAUGHTER OF LEAH, WHICH SHE BARE UNTO JACOB,.... Who is supposed to be at this time about fourteen or fifteen years of age: for that she was but about nine or ten years old is not...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. Ver. 1. _Went out to see the daughters of the land._] Who went abroad at this time, with timbrels...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out_ From her father's house into the city, out of curiosity, there being then, as Josephus asserts, (_Ant._, lib. 50. c. 20,) a great concourse of people to a feast...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [DINAH DEFILED.] 1 Dinah is rauished by Shechem. 4 He sueth to marry her. 13 The sonnes of Iacob offer the condition of Circumcision to the Shechemites. 20 Hamor and Shechem perswade them to accep...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Dinah Defiled...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. Dinah had probably been born in the fourteenth year of Jacob's service in Mesopotamia. She was, l...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SIXTH SECTION _Jacobs settlement in Canaan. At Succoth. At Shechem. Dinah. Simeon and Levi. The first manifestation of Jewish fanaticism. Jacob’s rebuke, and removal to Bethel_ GENESIS 33:17 TO GENE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    SHAMEFUL SIN IN JACOB'S HOUSE Jacob had been concerned about his own house: now he must learn through painful experience that when he puts his house first, he will find trouble and sorrow from his hou...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-19 Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are eve...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GENESIS CHAPTER 34 Dinah going forth to see the daughters of the country, is abused and defiled by Shechem, son of Hamor, GENESIS 34:1,2; who loves her, GENESIS 34:3; desires to marry her, GENESIS 34:...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 34:1 Dinah H1783 daughter H1323 Leah H3812 borne H3205 (H8804) Jacob H3290 out H3318 (H8799) see...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.' Note the stress on her pedigree. She was the chief's daughter by his primary wife. It was not real...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 33:20 ; GENESIS 34:1 In erecting this altar Jacob both set up a witness against the false worship and idolatry of the people among whom he dwelt, and at the same time provided a church or cent...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Harvest of evil years comes on Jacob and family. Dinah defiled and the bloody revenge. CHARACTERS: Dinah, Jacob, Hamor, sons of Jacob, Simeon, Levi. CONCLUSION: Untaught maidens who go out...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 34:1. _Dinah._ One of the oldest of Jacob's daughters, for he had many: Genesis 37:35. Josephus intimates that it was a festival day, and it is probable that she had been invited by ladies wit...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Dinah the daughter of Leah. .. went out to see_ DINAH’S INGLORIOUS MARCH I. SHE CAME. II. SHE SAW. III. SHE WAS CONQUERED. (_J. Henry Burn, B. D._) DINAH’S DISHONOUR I. THAT THERE IS GREAT DANGE...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 34:1. To see the daughters of the land.] To make their acquaintance—to pay them a friendly visit. GENESIS 34:3. HE LOVED THE DAMSEL, AND SPAKE KINDLY UNTO THE DAMSEL.] Heb. “...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 34:1 AND DINAH THE DAUGHTER OF LEAH, WHICH SHE BARE UNTO JACOB,—if Dinah was born before Joseph (Genesis 30:21) she was probably in her seventh year when Jacob reached Succoth ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now there's a time gap between Chapter s thirty-three and thirty-four because at the time that they had left the land of Padanaram, Dinah was less than six years old. And now she comes into the story...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    A.M. 2272. B.C. 1732. Dinah. Genesis 30:21 Genesis 46:15 the daughters. Genesis 26:34 Genesis 27:46...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Dinah was then about fifteen or sixteen years of age when she went out to see the daughters of the land — Probably on some public day. She went to see; yet that was not all, she went to be seen too: s...

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