2And 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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But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Dinah was, for aught that appears, Jacob’s only daughter, and we may suppose her therefore the mother’s fondling and the darling of the family, and yet she proves neither a joy nor a credit to them; for those children seldom prove either the best or the happiest that are most indulged. She is reckoned now but fifteen or sixteen years of age when she here occasioned so much mischief. Observe, 1. He…
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