†. Gen 34:25-26 . . On the third day, when they were in pain, Simeon
and Levi, two of Jacob's sons, brothers of Dinah, took each his
sword, came upon the city unopposed, and slew all the males. They
put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword, took Dinah out of
Shechem's house, and went away.
The boys did all that without Jacob's knowledge. Exactly what effect the
massacre of her boyfriend and his dad had upon Dinah is not said. Family
rivalries, like the old hillbilly rivalries of the Hatfields and the McCoys, are
bitter and driven solely by the code of the vendetta. There's no justice in
rivalries; only pay-back.
Oh, The Martins and the Coys,
They were reckless mountain boys,
And they scarred the mountains up with shot and shell.
There was uncles, brothers, cousins,
Why they bumped them off by dozens,
Just how many bit the dust is hard to tell.
_ Gene Autry _
†. Gen 34:27 . .The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and
plundered the town, because their sister had been defiled.
Only two of the brothers did the killing, but apparently all who were old
enough participated in the pillaging. I tell you, some of the patriarchs were
brutal men; and it was from them that the nation of Israel sprang. Later,
they will sell their own kid brother Joseph into slavery simply because they
envied his favorite-son status with their dad.
†. Gen 34:28-29 . .They seized their flocks and herds and asses, all
that was inside the town and outside; all their wealth, all their
children, and their wives, all that was in the houses, they took as
captives and booty.
What they did was what conquerors legitimately do in war. But Jacob wasn't
at war with Hamor's clan. Those boys were nothing in the world but
murderers, kidnappers, thugs, and thieves. To think Messiah came from that
blood line is beyond belief!
†. Gen 34:30-31 . . Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have brought
trouble on me, making me odious among the inhabitants of the land,
the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my men are few in number, so
that if they unite against me and attack me, I and my house will be
destroyed. But they answered: Should our sister be treated like a
whore?
Dinah's brothers were rash and hot headed; placing their own rage above
and beyond their family's safety, and their father Jacob's honor. That is the
self-centered attitude of criminals; which is exactly what they were. Without
God's providence, surely all of Canaan would have banded together and
justly hanged every last male in Jacob's camp so that the nation of Israel
would have ended right then and there. There would have been no holocaust
and no crucifixion, and the Palestinians today would have a country to call
their own. It's almost impossible to comprehend how those boys could have
ever descended from the world's most respected religious figure the world
has ever known: Abraham ben Terah
Many years later, Yhvh's people came to the brink of extinction because of
the pride of just one lone Jew in the book of Ruth. Boy! I tell you: God has
really had His hands full keeping those people from destroying themselves.
Cont.
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and Levi, two of Jacob's sons, brothers of Dinah, took each his
sword, came upon the city unopposed, and slew all the males. They
put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword, took Dinah out of
Shechem's house, and went away.
The boys did all that without Jacob's knowledge. Exactly what effect the
massacre of her boyfriend and his dad had upon Dinah is not said. Family
rivalries, like the old hillbilly rivalries of the Hatfields and the McCoys, are
bitter and driven solely by the code of the vendetta. There's no justice in
rivalries; only pay-back.
Oh, The Martins and the Coys,
They were reckless mountain boys,
And they scarred the mountains up with shot and shell.
There was uncles, brothers, cousins,
Why they bumped them off by dozens,
Just how many bit the dust is hard to tell.
_ Gene Autry _
†. Gen 34:27 . .The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and
plundered the town, because their sister had been defiled.
Only two of the brothers did the killing, but apparently all who were old
enough participated in the pillaging. I tell you, some of the patriarchs were
brutal men; and it was from them that the nation of Israel sprang. Later,
they will sell their own kid brother Joseph into slavery simply because they
envied his favorite-son status with their dad.
†. Gen 34:28-29 . .They seized their flocks and herds and asses, all
that was inside the town and outside; all their wealth, all their
children, and their wives, all that was in the houses, they took as
captives and booty.
What they did was what conquerors legitimately do in war. But Jacob wasn't
at war with Hamor's clan. Those boys were nothing in the world but
murderers, kidnappers, thugs, and thieves. To think Messiah came from that
blood line is beyond belief!
†. Gen 34:30-31 . . Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have brought
trouble on me, making me odious among the inhabitants of the land,
the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my men are few in number, so
that if they unite against me and attack me, I and my house will be
destroyed. But they answered: Should our sister be treated like a
whore?
Dinah's brothers were rash and hot headed; placing their own rage above
and beyond their family's safety, and their father Jacob's honor. That is the
self-centered attitude of criminals; which is exactly what they were. Without
God's providence, surely all of Canaan would have banded together and
justly hanged every last male in Jacob's camp so that the nation of Israel
would have ended right then and there. There would have been no holocaust
and no crucifixion, and the Palestinians today would have a country to call
their own. It's almost impossible to comprehend how those boys could have
ever descended from the world's most respected religious figure the world
has ever known: Abraham ben Terah
Many years later, Yhvh's people came to the brink of extinction because of
the pride of just one lone Jew in the book of Ruth. Boy! I tell you: God has
really had His hands full keeping those people from destroying themselves.
Cont.
/
