Genesis 34:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter, and he was more honorable than all the house of his father.

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  • 1 Chr 4:9 : 9 And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
  • Song 8:6 : 6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death; jealousy is as cruel as the grave: its coals are coals of fire, with a most vehement flame.
  • Isa 3:3-5 : 3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skilled craftsman, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.
  • Isa 5:13 : 13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
  • Isa 23:8-9 : 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to mar the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
  • Isa 62:4 : 4 You shall no longer be called Forsaken; nor shall your land any longer be called Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.
  • Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their district.
  • Acts 17:12 : 12 Therefore many of them believed; also many honorable Greek women, and numerous men.
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her.
  • Gen 41:20 : 20 And the thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
  • Num 22:15 : 15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
  • 1 Sam 22:14 : 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?
  • 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and leave.

    18And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

  • Gen 34:1-9
    9 verses
    81%

    1And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

    2And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

    3And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to her.

    4And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this young woman as a wife.

    5And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field, and Jacob held his peace until they came.

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

    7And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it, and they were grieved and very wroth because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.

    8And Hamor spoke with them, saying, My son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you give her to him as a wife.

    9And make marriages with us, and give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Gen 34:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

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

    21These men are peaceable with us, therefore let them dwell in the land and trade therein, for the land, indeed, is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us as wives, and let us give them our daughters.

  • Gen 34:11-14
    4 verses
    77%

    11And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find grace in your eyes, and whatever you say to me, I will give.

    12Ask me for ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to your saying to me, but give me the young woman as a wife.

    13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah, their sister,

    14And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.

  • Gen 34:24
    75%

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

  • Gen 34:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left.

    27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister.