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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Genesis 34:13

Deceitfully. The sons of Jacob, on this occasion, were guilty of a grievous sin, as well by falsely pretending religion, as by excess of their revenge. Though, otherwise their zeal against so foul a crime was commendable. (Challoner) --- In this light it is viewed by Judith ix. 2. Simeon and Levi spoke on this occasion, Septuagint, as they were afterwards the chief actors, ver. 25. There were commissioned by their father to speak for him; but Jacob was ignorant of their deceit. (Haydock)

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See also Genesis 34:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 34:13. _ANSWERED - DECEITFULLY_] Which nothing could excuse; yet, to show that they had had much provocation, it is immediately subjoined וידברו _vaidabberu, they spoke_ thus _because he...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Genesis 34:1 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 34 DEFILEMENT OF DINAH _ 1. The defilement (Genesis 34:1)_ 2. Hamor's proposal (Genesis 34:4) 3. The deceitful answer of Jacob's sons (Genesis 34:13) 4. The males of Shechem slain ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 34. SHECHEM'S OUTRAGE ON DINAH AVENGED. It is generally agreed that two sources have been used, but much uncertainty prevails as to their identity and extent, while in view of the priestly phr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the sons of Jacob_ In Genesis 34:13 we have the treacherous proposal, made by the sons of Jacob, by which they would be able to revenge themselves upon the Shechemites, and attack them, when they wou...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE SONS OF JACOB, &C.— The sons of Jacob means here Simeon and Levi, who were the actors in this affair, as being the uterine brothers of Dinah. Jacob seems to have referred the matter to them, of wh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-THREE THE STORY OF JACOB: INCIDENTS IN CANAAN (Genesis 34:1 to Genesis 35:28) The Biblical Account 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob went out to see the daughters...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE SONS OF JACOB ANSWERED SHECHEM AND HAMOR HIS FATHER DECEITFULLY, AND SAID, BECAUSE HE HAD DEFILED DINAH THEIR SISTER:_ The sons of Jacob answered ... deceitfully. Many writers have taken the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISHONOUR DONE TO DINAH, AND THE CRAFTY REVENGE OF SIMEON AND LEVI 1. Went out to see the daughters of the land] According to Josephus there was a festival among the Canaanites at Shechem....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 34 SHECHEM WANTS TO MARRY DINAH V1 Now Dinah was Leah’s daughter and her father was Jacob. Dinah went out to visit the women who lived in *Canaan...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Jacob’s sons decided to tell lies so that they could kill the inhabitants of Shechem. They could not kill only Hamor. If they did that, all the other inhabitants would attack Jacob’s family. So they d...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND SAID... AND THEY SAID. — These are two different verbs in the Hebrew, and should be translated _and spake_ (_because he had defiled Dinah their sister_)_, and said._ The intermediate words are par...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּעֲנ֨וּ בְנֵֽי ־יַעֲקֹ֜ב אֶת ־שְׁכֶ֨ם וְ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JACOB WITH THE SHECHEMITES Genesis 33:18; Genesis 34:1 Jacob was tempted by the fat pastures of Shechem, without thought or care of the character of its people, and he lived to bitterly rue his choic...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    When Jacob parted from Esau he should have gone directly to Beth-el. The previous chapter shows that he did not do so but tarried at Shechem. Unquestionably, this was a mistake. There is nothing more...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    DECEPTION AND SLAUGHTER Jacob's sons agreed to the marriage contract, but the text tells us they were acting deceitfully. They told Hamor they could not allow one of the women of Israel to marry an un...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Sad is the consequence of supposing gain to be godliness! 1 Timothy 6:5....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Psalms 12:2....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._And the sons of Jacob answered_. The commencement of their perfidious course is here related: for they, being outrageous rather than simply angry, wish to overthrow the whole city, and not being s...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE SONS OF JACOB ANSWERED SHECHEM AND HAMOR DECEITFULLY,.... Proposing the marriage of their sister on terms after mentioned, when they never intended it should ever be: Onkelos, Jonathan, and Ja...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: Ver. 13. _Deceitfully, and said, Because he had, &c._] Therefore they tho...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Ask me never so much dowry and gift_ Dowry to her for her portion, according to the ancient custom of men's buying their wives, Exodus 22:17; and _gift_ to you, either for reparation of the past inju...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [DINAH DEFILED.] 1 Dinah is rauished by Shechem. 4 He sueth to marry her. 13 The sonnes of Iacob offer the condition of Circumcision to the Shechemites. 20 Hamor and Shechem perswade them to accep...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DEMAND OF JACOB'S SONS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the sons of Jacob, who had a voice in the marriage of their sister, Genesis 24:50, ANSWERED SHECHEM AND HAMOR, HIS FATHER, DECEITFULLY. It was true enough that their acceptance of the proposal wou...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SIXTH SECTION _Jacobs settlement in Canaan. At Succoth. At Shechem. Dinah. Simeon and Levi. The first manifestation of Jewish fanaticism. Jacob’s rebuke, and removal to Bethel_ GENESIS 33:17 TO GENE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    SHAMEFUL SIN IN JACOB'S HOUSE Jacob had been concerned about his own house: now he must learn through painful experience that when he puts his house first, he will find trouble and sorrow from his hou...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-19 Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are eve...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DECEITFULLY; pretending and promising marriages with them upon that condition which they never intended....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 34:13 sons H1121 Jacob H3290 answered H6030 (H8799) Shechem H7927 Hamor H2544 father H1 spoke H1696 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, and said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Harvest of evil years comes on Jacob and family. Dinah defiled and the bloody revenge. CHARACTERS: Dinah, Jacob, Hamor, sons of Jacob, Simeon, Levi. CONCLUSION: Untaught maidens who go out...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 34:1. _Dinah._ One of the oldest of Jacob's daughters, for he had many: Genesis 37:35. Josephus intimates that it was a festival day, and it is probable that she had been invited by ladies wit...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house_ THE PUNISHMENT OF DINAH’S DISHONOUR I. IT WAS PROMPTED BY A FEELING OF VENGEANCE AGAINST THE D...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 34:1 Almost as soon as Jacob returns to Canaan, an incident threatens the future security of his family. While the rape of Dinah by Shechem is inexcusable, the retribution by S...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 34:6. Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out unto Jacob to commune with him.] In Oriental countries the fathers arrange the marriages of their children. GENESIS 34:7. WROUGHT...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 34:1 AND DINAH THE DAUGHTER OF LEAH, WHICH SHE BARE UNTO JACOB,—if Dinah was born before Joseph (Genesis 30:21) she was probably in her seventh year when Jacob reached Succoth ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now there's a time gap between Chapter s thirty-three and thirty-four because at the time that they had left the land of Padanaram, Dinah was less than six years old. And now she comes into the story...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    deceitfully. Genesis 25:27 Judges 15:3 2 Samuel 13:23 Job 13:4 Job 13:7...

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