This is a hard chapter for me to comment on. Me having 2 sisters and 2 daughters of my own makes me become enraged and angry just reading it. To tell you the truth I would have probably reacted just like Simeon and Levi did which was wrong. Even though what Shechem did was wrong vengeance is the Lords. What they did wrong was take God’s covenant sign that he had given to Abraham and they weaponized it. They also didn’t just go after Shechem, they killed every male of the Hivite tribe for what Shechem alone had done. This was very much excessive. They took matters into their own hands and took the vengeance that was rightfully God’s for themselves. I hate to say it but this is probably one of the most evil tactics that Satan stil uses today. We live in a sinful world and Satan used this disgusting situation to defile Dinah, use Simeon’s and Levi’s anger and rage to kill and destroy the Hivite people, and also cause corruption in God’s covenant people. It is a powerful blow to all sides when this happens to a woman or any individual for that matter. It takes extreme faith to get through these types of situations. I could only imagine what kind of faith it takes to get through these types of situations because I don’t believe I have it. That is why we always need a small group of guys that keep us accountable around us at all times. When these types of terrible things happen we need someone who is on the outside looking in that is thinking clearly to help guide our decisions because it is near impossible to tackle a situation like this alone. If you don’t have a group of Godly men in your inner circle it would be wise to find some. We live in a sinful and broken world and we need all of the help we can get as men. It is impossible to walk this world alone without it smothering you. Love y’all! Have a great day!
Genesis 34:1-31
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“Leah’s daughter Dinah, whom Leah bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area. When Shechem — son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the region’s chieftain — saw her, he took her and raped her. He became infatuated with Jacob’s daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her. “Get me this girl as a wife,” he told his father. Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned. Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob. Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done. Hamor said to Jacob’s sons, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it.” Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I’ll give you whatever you say. Demand of me a high compensation and gift; I’ll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife! ” But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah. “We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us. We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are. Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people. But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.” Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s family. So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city. “These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them. But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are. Won’t their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let’s agree with them, and they will live with us.” All the men who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised. On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away. Jacob’s sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled. They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. They captured all their possessions, dependents, and wives and plundered everything in the houses. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.” But they answered, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute? ”
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