創世記 34:6-12 JCB

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 34:10

and the land: Genesis 34:21-Isaiah :, Genesis 13:9, Genesis 20:15, Genesis 42:34, Genesis 47:27 Reciprocal: Genesis 47:6 - is read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 34:11

Genesis 18:3, Genesis 33:15 Reciprocal: Genesis 30:27 - favour read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 34:12

Ask me: On the practice of purchasing wives, Deut. Lam. Roque says, "Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as when they have many daughters. They form part of the riches of the house. Accordingly, when a young man would treat with a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to him, Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six camels, or for a dozen cows?' according to the rank of her family,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 34:7

And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.It is called folly in Israel - According to the language of after-times, for Israel was not yet a people, but a family only. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 34:8

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.Hamor communed — That is, talked. He came to treat with Jacob himself, but he turns them over to his sons. And here we have a particular account of the treaty, in which it is a shame to say the Canaanites were more honest than the Israelites. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 34:7

7. Came… heard… grieved… wroth Jacob had silently meditated the matter before his sons came, (Genesis 34:5,) and probably felt all the dangers, shame, and trouble necessarily arising from the rape, but hesitated what to do . But his sons, with all the passion and daring of youth, feeling the deep disgrace incurred, allowed their sense of wrong to generate in them the darkest purposes of revenge . Wrought folly in Israel This is the language of the writer, not of Jacob’s sons . He speaks... read more