17And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
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And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)Observe here, 1. The account of the posterity of Canaan, of the families and nations that descended from him, and of the land they possessed, is more particular than of any other in this chapter, because these were the nations that were to be subdued before Israel, and their land was in process of time to become the holy land, Immanuel’s land ; and this God had an eye to when, in the mean time, he…
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