Genesis 34:1-31
[A.M. 2272. B.C. 1732.]
Dinah <01783> [Dinah.]
daughter ............ women <01323> [the daughters.]
<07927> [Shechem.]
When ............... grabbed <07200 03947> [saw her.]
grabbed ........ sexually <03947 07901> [took her.]
her ........... assaulted <06031> [defiled her. Heb. humbled her.]
attached <05315> [soul.]
young woman .... romantically <05291 03820> [kindly unto the damsel. Heb. to the heart of the damsel.]
sons <01121> [now his.]
silent <02790> [held.]
offended ... very <06087 03966> [were.]
sexually assaulting .......... committed <06213> [wrought.]
sexually assaulting .......... committed <06213> [thing.]
<05315> [The soul.]
land <0776> [and the land.]
make ........... very <07235 03966> [Ask me.]
On the practice of purchasing wives, De La Roque says, "Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as when they have many daughters. They form part of the riches of the house. Accordingly, when a young man would treat with a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to him, 'Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six camels, or for a dozen cows?' according to the rank of her family, and the circumstances of him who desires to marry her."
bride price <04119> [dowry.]
deceitfully <04820> [deceitfully.]
not circumcised <06190> [uncircumcised.]
wanted <02654> [because.]
important than <03513> [honourable.]
gate <08179> [the gate.]
agreed <08085> [hearkened.]
In thus falling into this measure, the Shechemites must either have had great affection for their chief and his son, or have been under the influence of the most passive obedience. The petty princes of Asia have always been absolute and despotic; their subjects paying them the most prompt and blind obedience. The following instance will sufficiently illustrate and confirm this statement: Abu Thaher, chief of the Carmathians, about the year 930, with only 500 horse, went to lay siege to Bagdad: the khalif's general marched out to seize him; but before the attack, sent an officer to summon him to surrender. "How many men has the khalif's general?" said Abu Thaher; "30,000," replied the officer. "Among them all," says the Carmathian chief, "has he got three like mine?" Then ordering his followers to approach, he commanded one to stab himself, another to throw himself from a precipice, and a third to plunge into the Tigris: all three instantly obeyed, and perished! Then turning to the officer, he said, "He who has such troops need not value the number of his enemies!"
assembled ................ assembled <03318> [went out.]
male <02145> [every male.]
pain <03510> [sore.]
Simeon <08095> [Simeon.]
slaughtered <02026> [slew.]
<06310> [edge. Heb. mouth.]
looted <0962> [spoiled.]
violated <02930> [they.]
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brought ruin <05916> [Ye have.]
foul odor <0887> [to stink.]
few <04962> [and I being.]
destroyed <08045> [and I shall.]
Genesis 5:2
male <02145> [Male.]
named <08034> [their.]
Genesis 7:1
Come <0935> [A.M. 1656. B.C. 2348. Come.]
I consider <07200> [thee.]
Genesis 9:25
Cursed <0779> [Cursed.]
lowest of slaves <05650> [a servant.]
The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity.
Matthew 12:43
When <3752> [when.]
Had there been no reality in demoniacal possessions, as some have supposed, our Lord would scarcely have appealed to a case of this kind here, to point out the real state of the Jewish people, and their approaching desolation. Had this been only a vulgar error, of the nonsense of which the learned scribes and wise Pharisees must have been convinced, the case, not being in point, because not true, must have been treated with contempt by the very people for whose conviction it was designed.
an unclean <169> [the unclean.]
it passes <1330> [he.]
waterless <504> [dry.]
looking <2212> [seeking.]
Luke 4:33-37
Ha <1436> [Let us alone. or, Away.]
who <5101> [what.]
Have you come <2064 1488> [art.]
Holy One <40> [the Holy One.]
Jesus <2424> [Jesus.]
after .... threw .... down <4496> [thrown.]
were <1096> [They were.]
What's <5101> [What.]
they come out <1831> [they come.]
news <2279> [the fame.]
[Echos <\\See definition 2279\\>,] the sound; a very elegant metaphor, says Dr. Adam Clarke. The people are represented as struck with astonishment, and the sound goes out through all the coasts; in allusion to the propagation of sound by a smart stroke upon any substance.
