Genesis 34:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

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  • Gen 49:5-7 : 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. 6 Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded. 7 A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
  • Gen 29:33-34 : 33 Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon. 34 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.
  • Num 31:7 : 7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.
  • Num 31:17 : 17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
  • Josh 5:6 : 6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Josh 5:8 : 8 So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again.
  • 2 Chr 32:25 : 25 But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
  • Prov 6:34-35 : 34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. 35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:26-27
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    89%

    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;

  • Gen 34:24
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    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 34:13
    79%

    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.

  • Gen 34:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Gen 34:29-30
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    76%

    29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

    30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

  • Gen 49:5
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    5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

  • Gen 34:7
    75%

    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.