Genesis 34:6-31 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 34:6-17

Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many are concerned at the shamefulness of sin that never lay to heart the sinfulness of it. It is here called folly in Israel (Gen. 34:7), according to the language of after-times; for Israel was not yet a people, but a family only. Note, 1. Uncleanness is folly; for it sacrifices the favour of God,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 34:18-24

I. Hamor and Shechem fairly propose this match, in order to a coalition in trade. Shechem is deeply in love with Dinah; he will have her upon any terms, Gen. 34:11, 12. His father not only consents, but solicits for him, and gravely insists upon the advantages that would follow from the union of the families, Gen. 34:9, 10. He shows no jealousy of Jacob, though he was a stranger, but rather an earnest desire to settle a correspondence with him and his family, making him that generous offer,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 34:25-31

Here, we have Simeon and Levi, two of Jacob's sons, young men not much above twenty years old, cutting the throats of the Shechemites, and thereby breaking the heart of their good father. I. Here is the barbarous murder of the Shechemites. Jacob himself was used to the sheep-hook, but his sons had got swords by their sides, as if they had been the seed of Esau, who was to live by his sword; we have them here, 1. Slaying the inhabitants of Shechem?all the males, Hamor and Shechem particularly,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:6

And Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out unto Jacob ,.... Unto the tent of Jacob without the city: to commune with him ; to talk with him about the affair of Dinah, to pacify him, and endeavour to gain his consent, that his son might marry her, and to settle the, terms and conditions of the marriage. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:7

And the sons of Jacob came out of the field, when they heard it ,..... Either by a messenger Jacob sent to them, to acquaint them with it, or by some other hand: however, be it as it will, as soon as they heard of the abuse of their sister, they immediately left their flocks to the care of their servants, and came to their father's tent: and the men were grieved and were very wroth ; they were grieved for the sin committed against God, very probably, as well as for the injury done to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:8

And Hamor communed with them ,.... With Jacob and his sons, who came in just at that time: saying, the soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter : the daughter of the family, and the only daughter in it; for her Shechem had a vehement affection, a strong desire to marry her, and could not be satisfied without her: I pray you, give her him to wife ; he not only requests the consent of the parents of the damsel, but of her brothers also, which in those times and countries seems... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:9

And make ye marriages with us ,.... There was no objection on their side, it lay on the other; Abraham's servant was charged by him not to take a wife of the Canaanites to his son Isaac; and the same charge was given Jacob by Isaac, Genesis 24:3 ; and therefore Jacob would never agree that his children should marry any of that nation; and marriages with them were afterwards forbidden by the law of Moses, Deuteronomy 7:3 , and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:10

And ye shall dwell with us ,..... Peaceably and quietly, not as sojourners only, but as inhabitants: and the land shall be before you ; to choose what part of it they pleased to dwell in, and which they should have in their own power and possession: dwell and trade you therein ; in any sort of traffic and commerce the land would admit of, and they should best choose: and get you possessions therein ; buy houses and land, and enjoy them, they and their posterity; these are the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:11

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren ,.... To the father and brethren of Dinah; he addressed them after his father Hamor had done speaking: let me find grace in your eyes ; forgive the offence committed, the injury done to Dinah, and grant the request of her marriage, and it will be considered as a great favour: and what ye shall say unto me, I will give ; to her, to her parents, to her brethren and relations; let what will be fixed, shall be given; which showed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:12

Ask me never so much dowry and gift ,.... Or "multiply them exceedingly" F9 הרבז־מאד "multiplicate super me admodum", Drusius, Schmidt. , fix them at as high a rate as may be thought fit; the "dowry" was what a man gave to a woman at her marriage; for in those times and countries, instead of a man having a portion with his wife, as with us in our times, he gave one to his wife, or to her parents for her; and especially in after times this was used, and became a law in Israel, in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 34:6-17

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 34:18-24

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 34:25-31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:12

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