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these the sons of Israel? Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce.
[5.] This also added to the crime, that they made a holy ordinance of God subservient to their wicked design, so making that odious; as if it were not enough for them to shame themselves and their family, they bring a reproach upon that honourable badge of their religion; justly would it be called a bloody ordinance.
The people are punished because of their wicked princes.
26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
Seizing the prey of Shechem, and plundering the town. They rescued Dinah (Ge 34:26), and, if that was all they came for, they might have done that without blood, as appears by their own showing (Ge 34:17); but they aimed at the spoil; and, though Simeon and Levi only were the murderers, yet it is intimated that others of the sons of Jacob came upon the slain and spoiled the city (Ge 34:27), and so became accessory to the murder. In them it was manifest injustice; yet here we may observe the righteousness of God. The Shechemites were willing to gratify the sons of Jacob by submitting to the penance of circumcision, upon this principle, Shall not their cattle and their substance be ours? (Ge 34:23), and see what was the issue; instead of making themselves masters of the wealth of Jacob's family, Jacob's family become masters of their wealth.
Note, Those who unjustly grasp at that which is another's justly lose that which is their own.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because
they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that
which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took
they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.