SIMEON AND LEVI SLAY THE MEN OF HAMOR
Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s full brothers, avenge this act by slaying all the inhabitants of the city of Hamor.
This cannot be justified, and it is a dark blot on the family of Jacob. It reveals the fact that Jacob did not get away too soon when he left his Uncle Laban down in the land of Haran.
We need to see that God was right in getting him away from that environment.
There are three chapters in the Book of Genesis that are not pretty at all, and they all concern the children of Leah, the elder daughter of Laban who was given to Jacob.
I believe that this gives evidence of the fact that God does not approve of plurality of marriages.
The very fact that it was forced on Jacob to a certain extent did not make it right, by any means—Jacob at least went along with it.
We find in this section that the children of Leah are all involved in sin. She had four boys. In this chapter it is Simeon and Levi.
In chapter 35 we come to another of the sons, Reuben, the firstborn. In chapter 38 it will be Judah.
Every one of Leah’s sons turned out rather badly, and there was flagrant sin in their lives.
We have already noted that there was a great deal of strife in all of these families, but now another element has entered in.
There is sordidness and a shoddiness that has seeped into the family of Jacob that was not in the family of Abraham or of Isaac.
They had a great deal of difficulty and many problems, but nothing like we see in Jacob’s family.
Again, God wanted to get this man Jacob and his family out from the home of Laban, out from that atmosphere, because the very atmosphere gave the background for these awful sins that are mentioned here.
Genesis 34:25-31 KJV
[25] And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
[26] And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
[27] The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
[28] They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
[29] And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
[30] And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
[31] And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
Genesis 34:25 KJV
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis 34:26 KJV
And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
Genesis 34:27 KJV
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34:28 KJV
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
Genesis 34:29 KJV
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
Genesis 34:30 KJV
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Genesis 34:31 KJV
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
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