Genesis 34:20

World English Bible (2000)

Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

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  • Ruth 4:1 : 1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, "Come over here, friend, and sit down!" He turned aside, and sat down.
  • 2 Sam 15:2 : 2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."
  • Job 29:7 : 7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
  • Prov 31:23 : 23 Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
  • Amos 5:10 : 10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
  • Gen 22:17 : 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
  • Gen 23:10 : 10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
  • Deut 17:5 : 5 then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:6-13
    8 verses
    89%

    6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

    7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.

    8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

    9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

    10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

    11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

    12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

    13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

  • Gen 34:17-19
    3 verses
    86%

    17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

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

    19 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

  • Gen 34:1-4
    4 verses
    84%

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

    2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

    3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

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

  • Gen 34:23-24
    2 verses
    84%

    23 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

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

  • Gen 34:21
    83%

    21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

  • Gen 34:26-27
    2 verses
    78%

    26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.

    27 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

  • Gen 33:19
    74%

    19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.