Genesis 34:25-31 NIV,NKJV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:30

Ye have troubled me - Brought my mind into great distress, and endangered my personal safety; to make me to stink - to render me odious to the surrounding tribes, so that there is every reason to suspect that when this deed is come abroad they will join in a confederacy against me, and extirpate my whole family. And had he not been under the peculiar protection of God, this in all human probability would have been the case; but he had prevailed with God, and he was also to prevail with men.... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:31

Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot? - On this outrage alone they vindicated their flagitious conduct. The word harlot first occurs here: the original is not פילגש pilegesh , which we render concubine, (see its explanation Genesis 22:24 ; (note)), but זונה zonah , which ordinarily signifies one who prostitutes herself to any person for hire. Our word harlot is said to have been derived from a very odd circumstance: Robert, duke of Normandy, seeing a fine-looking country... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:25

Verse 25 25.Simian and Levi, Dinah’s brethren. Because Moses says that the slaughter took place on the third day, the Hebrews think that, at that time, the pain of the wound was most severe. The proof, however, is not valid; nor is it of much moment. Although Moses names only two authors of the slaughter, it does not appear to me probable that they came alone, but that they were the leaders of the troop: for Jacob had a large family, and it might be that they called some of their brothers to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:27

Verse 27 27.The sons of Jacob came. Moses shows that, not content with simple revenge, they fly together to the spoil. As it respects the words, they are said to have come upon the slain, either because they made themselves a way over the slaughtered bodies; or because, in addition to the slaughter, they rushed to the plunder. In whichever way it is taken, Moses teaches that, not satisfied with their former wickedness, they made this addition to it. Be it, that they were blinded with anger in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:30

Verse 30 30.And Jacob said. Moses declares that the crime was condemned by the holy man, lest any one should think that he had participated in their counsel. He also expostulates with his sons, because they had caused him to stink among the inhabitants of the land; that is, they had rendered him so odious, that no one would be able to bear him. If then the neighboring nations should conspire among themselves, he would be unable to resist them, seeing he had so small a band, in comparison with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:1-31

The tragedy at Shechem. I. DINAH AND SHECHEM . 1. A young girl ' s indiscretion . "Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land." If Dinah's object was to witness the manners of the people, she was guilty of objectionable curiosity; if to exhibit herself, of distressing vanity; if to mingle in their entertainments, of improper levity; and for all these reasons, considering the character of the family to which she belonged, and the wickedness of the people with whom... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:1-31

Good out of evil. The whole of this miserable story has its place in the development of the kingdom of God. No alliance can be true and safe which is not upon the foundation of the Divine covenants. Circumcision without faith is a mere carnal ordinance, working evil. The sin of Shechem was avenged, but it was avenged by the commission of a greater sin by Simeon and Levi. It was not thus that the kingdom of God was to be spread. "Ye have troubled me," Jacob said. And so have all worldly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:25

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore ,—literally, in their being in pain ; δτε η}san e)n tw=| po&nw;| ( LXX .). Inflammation and fever commonly set in on the third day, which was for that reason regarded as the critical day— that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren ( i.e. sons of the same mother, Leah), took each man his sword, and came upon the city —accompanied by their servants (Keil), or their father's men (Murphy), but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:26

And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son, with the edge (literally, the mouth ) of the sword ,—without excusing the inhuman barbarity of this remorseless massacre, Kurtz offers an elaborate and interesting analysis of the complex motive of which it was the outcome, in particular showing how in Jacob's sons that strange admixture of religious zeal and carnal passion, of lofty faith and low craft, existed which formed so large a portion of the character of the patriarch himself ( vide ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:27-29

The sons of Jacob —not all except Simeon and Levi (Delitzsch), nor Simeon and Levi alone (Kalisch, Inglis), but Simeon and Levi along with the others (Rosenmüller, Keil, Lange)— came upon the slain ,—the absence of the ו conjunctive at the commencement of this verse, which partitionists account for by the hypothesis that Genesis 34:27-29 are an interpolation, is explained by Keil as designed to express the subjective excitement and indignation of the historian at the revolting... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:31

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:27

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:1-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:1-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 34:27-29

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