31And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 hav…
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