The Defiling of Dinah
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land. Gen 30:21Jer 2:361Ti 5:13Gen 26:34Gen 27:46Gen 28:6Gen 30:13Gen 46:15 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force. Mat 5:28Jdg 14:1Job 31:1Job 31:9Pro 13:202Sa 11:2Deu 21:14Deu 22:24 And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly. Hos 2:14Isa 40:21Sa 18:12Ch 30:222Sa 19:7Rut 1:14 So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.” Jdg 14:22Sa 13:13Gen 21:21
Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned. 2Sa 13:221Sa 10:271Sa 16:111Sa 17:15Gen 30:35Gen 37:13-14Lev 10:3Luk 15:25 Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob. When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel 1by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done. Jdg 20:6Jos 7:15Deu 22:21Gen 20:9Heb 13:41Co 10:81Co 6:181Pe 2:9
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. 1Ki 11:2Psa 119:20Gen 34:3Psa 63:1Psa 84:2 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves. Deu 7:3Gen 19:14Gen 24:3Gen 26:34-35Gen 27:46Gen 6:2 You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.” Gen 13:9Gen 20:15Gen 42:34Gen 47:27Gen 34:21-23
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask. Gen 33:15Gen 18:3 Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!” Exo 22:16-171Sa 18:25-272Sa 3:14Deu 22:28-29Gen 24:53Gen 29:18Gen 31:41Mat 14:17
The Revenge of Dinah’s Brothers
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully. 1Th 5:152Sa 13:23-29Gen 25:27-34Isa 59:13Jdg 15:3Job 13:4Job 13:7Mat 28:13 “We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us. 1Ki 21:91Sa 14:61Sa 17:261Sa 17:362Sa 1:202Sa 15:7Gen 17:11Gen 17:14 We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males. Gal 4:12 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people. But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. 1Ch 4:91Sa 22:142Ki 5:1Act 13:50Act 17:12Gen 29:20Gen 41:20Isa 23:8-9
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city: Rut 4:12Sa 15:2Amo 5:10Amo 5:12Amo 5:15Deu 17:5Gen 22:17Gen 23:10 “These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them. But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are. Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.” Pro 1:12-131Ti 6:6-10Act 19:24-26Jhn 2:16Jhn 6:26-27Pro 23:4-5Pro 28:20
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised. 1Co 7:19Gen 23:10Gen 17:23Gen 23:18Isa 1:10-16Mat 7:6Rom 2:28-29
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male. Gen 49:5-7Gen 29:33-342Ch 32:25Jos 5:6Jos 5:8Num 31:17Num 31:7Pro 4:16 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away. 2Sa 2:26Deu 32:42Isa 31:8
Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled. 1Ti 6:10Est 9:10Est 9:16Exo 2:14Gen 34:2Gen 34:31Jos 7:1Jos 7:13 They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field. Deu 8:17-18Job 1:15-16Job 20:5Num 31:17 They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.” 1Sa 13:4Exo 5:21Jos 7:25Psa 105:121Ch 16:191Ch 19:61Sa 27:12Gen 13:7
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?” Pro 6:34Gen 34:13Gen 49:7