Gen 34:30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have gotten me into trouble; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I do not have many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed."
Gen 34:31 But they answered, "We cannot let our sister be treated like a common whore."
Shechem. Son of Hamor, ravaged jacob’s daughter Dinah. Shechem loved Dinah so he asked his father Hamor the Hivite, to negotiate with Jacob about marriage. Jacob’s son agreed but on the condition that Hamor and his people was to be circumcised. The Hivites agreed and circumcised all the Hivites so that they will be worthy of Jacob’s people. Unfortunately Jacob’s sons deceived the Hivites and when the opportunity came, they attacked and killed the Hivites.
Jacob was very disappointed at what his son had done.
If it was my sister maybe I would have done what Jacob’s son did. The Bible was quiet about Dinah, on how she felt about all these things. Maybe her grief was so great that it drove her brothers into a killing frenzy. But the Hivites humbled themselves to Jacob and did all what Jacob’s sons had suggested they do, but in the end they were still executed by Jacob’s son.
A difficult story in the Bible since I tend to think that the Bible is God’s word, the Bible is all goodness, spirituality and all those religious and beautiful and powerful ideas about the book. But this is a story that tells so much about human nature and not about God. Learn from it, this is the message of the story and of the Bible.
I should learn from it.
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Weekly Bible Devotional
Jacob Wrestling with the ANGEL of GOD
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Genesis32:23-31
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