Genesis 34:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.

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  • 1 Chr 4:9 : 9 And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.
  • Song 8:6 : 6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
  • Isa 3:3-5 : 3 The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers. 4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them. 5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.
  • Isa 5:13 : 13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
  • Isa 23:8-9 : 8 By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land? 9 It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.
  • Isa 62:4 : 4 You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.
  • Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.
  • Acts 17:12 : 12 And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
  • Gen 41:20 : 20 And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;
  • Num 22:15 : 15 So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.
  • 1 Sam 22:14 : 14 Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?
  • 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17 But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.

    18 And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.

  • Gen 34:1-9
    9 verses
    81%

    1 Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.

    2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.

    3 Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

    4 And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

    5 Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.

    6 Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.

    7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

    8 But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

    9 And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Gen 34:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    20 Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

    21 It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

  • Gen 34:11-14
    4 verses
    77%

    11 And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.

    12 However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

    13 But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.

    14 And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

  • Gen 34:24
    75%

    24 Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

  • Gen 34:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.

    27 And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;