Verse 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 as one would naturally do after the name Israel had become national and historic .
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