Chapter 34:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Revelation Exodus
Genesis 34
Concise Complete
Dinah defiled by Shechem. (1-19) The Shechemites
murdered by Simeon and Levi. (20-31)
Verses 1-19
Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the
care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of
designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snares for them, expose them to
great danger. They are their own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially
alone, among strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not
hinder their children from needlessly exposing themselves to danger. Indulged
children, like Dinah, often become a grief and shame to their families. Her
pretence was, to see the daughters of the land, to see how they dressed, and how
they danced, and what was fashionable among them; she went to see, yet that was
not all, she went to be seen too. She went to get acquaintance with the
Canaanites, and to learn their ways. See what came of Dinah's gadding. The
beginning of sin is as the letting forth of water. How great a matter does a
little fire kindle! We should carefully avoid all occasions of sin and
approaches to it.
Verses 20-31
The Shechemites submitted to the sacred rite, only to serve a turn, to please
their prince, and to enrich themselves, and it was just with God to bring
punishment upon them. As nothing secures us better than true religion, so
nothing exposes us more than religion only pretended to. But Simeon and Levi
were most unrighteous. Those who act wickedly, under the pretext of religion,
are the worst enemies of the truth, and harden the hearts of many to
destruction. The crimes of others form no excuse for us. Alas! how one sin leads
on to another, and, like flames of fire, spread desolation in every direction!
Foolish pleasures lead to seduction; seduction produces wrath; wrath thirsts for
revenge; the thirst of revenge has recourse to treachery; treachery issues in
murder; and murder is followed by other lawless actions. Were we to trace the
history of unlawful commerce between the sexes, we should find it, more than any
other sin, ending in blood.
Chapter 34:
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