Genesis 34:18-19 - Exposition

And their words pleased (literally, were flood in the eyes of ) Hamor, and (literally, in the eyes of ) Shechem , Hamor's son. And the young man deferred not ( i.e. delayed not) to do the thing (literally, the word, i.e. to submit to circumcision. This is stated here by anticipation), because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honorable —literally, more honored, doubtless because more worthy of regard (cf. 1 Chronicles 4:9 )— than all the house of his father .