Genesis 34:26

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They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.

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  • Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword will devour flesh, the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Abner called out to Joab and said, 'Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long will you delay telling the people to stop pursuing their brothers?'
  • Isa 31:8 : 8 Then Assyria will fall by a sword not wielded by man, and a sword not wielded by humans will devour them. They will flee from the sword, and their young men will be put into forced labor.

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  • Gen 34:24-25
    2 verses
    89%

    24All who went out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised—all who went out of the gate of the city.

    25On the third day, when they were in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came against the city undetected, and killed every male.

  • Gen 34:27-29
    3 verses
    87%

    27The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.

    28They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.

    29They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their wives, taking everything in the houses as plunder.

  • Gen 34:1-8
    8 verses
    83%

    1Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to observe the women of the land.

    2And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He seized her, lay with her, and violated her.

    3But his heart was deeply attached to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

    4Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife."

    5Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but his sons were in the fields with the livestock, so Jacob kept silent until they came back.

    6Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him.

    7Now Jacob's sons had come in from the fields when they heard, and the men were grieved and very angry, because this outrageous act had been done in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter—something that should not be done.

    8Hamor spoke with them, saying, "My son Shechem has set his heart on your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

  • Gen 34:13
    82%

    13But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah.

  • Gen 34:20
    78%

    20Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying:

  • Gen 34:18
    78%

    18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.