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Genesis 34:8 KJV
Genesis · chapter 34 · verse 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.Genesis 34:8 · King James Version
Genesis 34:8 in context
6And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
7And 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.
8And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
9And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
10And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- communeddâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- daughterbatha daughterH1323 →
- ShechemShᵉkemShekem, a place in PalestineH7927 →
- longethchâshaqto clingH2836 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
- HamorChămôwrChamor, a CanaaniteH2544 →
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Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many are concerned at the shamefulness of sin that never lay to heart the sinfulness of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-17