Genesis 34:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
  • Isa 31:8 : 8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

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  • Gen 34:24-25
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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.

    25 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.

  • Gen 34:27-29
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    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;

    28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,

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

  • Gen 34:1-8
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    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?

  • Gen 34:13
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    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 34:20
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    20 Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

  • Gen 34:18
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    18 And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.