![]() This evening we will note Genesis 34:25-29, which presents to us the record of the murder of Shechem and his father Hamor as well as all the men of the city of Shechem by Jacob’s sons in retaliation for the rape of their sister Dinah. Last evening we studied Genesis 34:18-24, which gives us the account of Shechem and Hamor deceitfully selling to their subjects the proposed condition of circumcision so as to get Jacob’s sons to agree to their intermarriage and economic proposals. However, we saw on Sunday in Genesis 34:13-17, Jacob’s sons deceitfully propose to Hamor that he and his constituents agree to the condition of circumcision with the intention of killing him, his son Shechem and all the men of the city of Shechem in retaliation for his son Shechem raping their sister Dinah. In Genesis 34:8-12, we saw Hamor proposing intermarriage and an economic package to Jacob’s sons that would greatly benefit Jacob’s family. ![]() Genesis 34:5-7 records Jacob’s “passive” response to the rape of Dinah and the angry reaction of his sons. Then, in Genesis 34:1-4, we saw Dinah raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite. However, the Hivites were a branch of the Canaanites who were under a curse as stipulated in the prophecy of Noah, which is recorded in Genesis 9:24-27, thus Jacob’s family could not intermarry with Hamor’s people, the Hivites. Hamor sold this tract of land to Jacob with the intention of intermarrying with Jacob’s family and absorbing their great wealth and possessions that they acquired in Paddan Aram. Then, in Genesis 33:18-20, we saw Jacob crossing the Jordan and moving twenty miles to the west and settling at Shechem in the land of Canaan, and purchases land from Hamor, who was a Hivite. In Genesis 33:17, we saw Jacob staying temporarily in Succoth in order to rest his flocks and family after their difficult and long journey from Paddan Aram and confrontations with both Laban and Esau. This evening we will continue with our study of the massacre of the city of Shechem by Jacob’s sons in retaliation for the rape of their sister Dinah by Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite. Please turn in your Bibles to Genesis 34:1. ![]() Genesis: Genesis 34:25-29-Simeon and Levi Massacre Shechem
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