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Verse Genesis 34:14. _THAT WERE A REPROACH UNTO US_] Because the
uncircumcised were not in the covenant of God; and to have given an
heiress of the promise to one who had no kind of right to its
spir...
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- 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...
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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 ...
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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...
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_uncircumcised_ The passage contains the interesting and early
tradition, that circumcision was not practised by the Canaanite
dwellers in Shechem. On the widespread prevalence of this rite, see
note...
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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...
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_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....
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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....
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For ‘*circumcised’ see Genesis 17:10-12 and the comment....
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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...
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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...
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AND SAID... AND THEY SAID. — These are two different verbs in the
Hebrew, and should be translated _and spake_ (_because he had defiled
Dinah their sister_)_, and said._ The intermediate words are
par...
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וַ יֹּאמְר֣וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם לֹ֤א נוּכַל֙
לַ עֲשֹׂ
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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...
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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...
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DECEPTION AND SLAUGHTER
Jacob's sons agreed to the marriage contract, but the text tells us
they were acting deceitfully. They told Hamor they could not allow one
of the women of Israel to marry an un...
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And they said unto them, (c) We cannot do this thing, to give our
sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a (d) reproach
unto us:
(c) They used the holy ordinance of God a means to accom...
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_Abominable. To be uncircumcised, was a reproach among the Hebrews.
Yet there was no law forbidding to marry such. Laban was of this
description, and the Chanaanites also; whose daughters the sons of...
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Genesis 17:11....
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Sad is the consequence of supposing gain to be godliness! 1 Timothy
6:5....
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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...
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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...
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AND THEY SAID UNTO THEM,.... Levi and Simeon, to Hamor and Shechem:
WE CANNOT DO THIS THING, TO GIVE OUR SISTER TO ONE THAT IS
UNCIRCUMCISED; not that there was any law against it at that time; and
t...
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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:
Ver. 14. _That were a reproach unto us._] And yet the world
repr...
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[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...
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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. That,
in itself, may have been true enough that blood-relationship...
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THE DEMAND OF JACOB'S SONS...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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There was no such law yet in force, as the examples of Isaac and Jacob
show, who married the daughters of uncircumcised persons; and
therefore they do not here reject it as simply unlawful, but only a...
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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...
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Genesis 34:14 said H559 (H8799) cannot H3808 H3201 (H8799) do H6213
(H8800) thing H1697 give...
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‘And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with
guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, and said
to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who...
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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...
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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...
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_They slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and
took Dinah out of Shechem’s house_
THE PUNISHMENT OF DINAH’S DISHONOUR
I. IT WAS PROMPTED BY A FEELING OF VENGEANCE AGAINST THE D...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 34:14 In ch. Genesis 17:1, circumcision is
introduced as the sign of God’s covenant with Abraham. Those who are
circumcised acknowledge Abraham as their father....
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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 S...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 34:6. Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out unto Jacob to
commune with him.] In Oriental countries the fathers arrange the
marriages of their children.
GENESIS 34:7. WROUGHT...
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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 ...
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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...
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uncircumcised. Genesis 17:11 Joshua 5:2 1 Samuel 14:6 1 Samuel 17:26...