Genesis 34:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. ”

Genesis 34:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Genesis 34:1-5 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later per...
Genesis 34:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, (a) went out to see the daughters of the land. (a) This example teaches us that too much liberty is not to be given to youth.
Genesis 34:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 34. Shechem's Outrage on Dinah Avenged. It is generally agreed that two sources have been used, but much uncertainty prevails as to their identity and extent, while in view of the priestly...
Genesis 34:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. And Dinah... went out. This chapter records a severe contest, with which God again exercised his servant. How precious the chastity of his daughter would be to him, we may readily conjectu...
Genesis 34:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And Dinah - went out to see the daughters of the land - It is supposed that Jacob had been now ab...
Genesis 34:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, &c.— See note on Genesis 34:18 of the preceding chapter. Though we cannot ascertain the exact time of this fact, it must have been at least seven or eight year...
Genesis 34:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. Though freed from foreign troubles, Jacob met with a great domestic calamity in the fall o...
Genesis 34:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Dishonour done to Dinah, and the Crafty Revenge of Simeon and Levi 1. Went out to see the daughters of the land] According to Josephus there was a festival among the Canaanites at Shechem.
Genesis 34:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XXXIV. (1) Dinah... went out to see the daughters of the land. — Those commentators who imagine that Jacob sojourned only twenty years at Haran are obliged to suppose that he remained two or mor...
Genesis 34:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jacob with the Shechemites Genesis 33:18-20 ; Genesis 34:1-17 Jacob was tempted by the fat pastures of Shechem, without thought or care of the character of its people, and he lived to bitterly...
Genesis 34:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

When Jacob parted from Esau he should have gone directly to Beth-el. The previous chapter shows that he did not do so but tarried at Shechem. Unquestionably, this was a mistake. There is nothing more...
Genesis 34:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS Hitherto the Patriarch Jacob had been exercised with many sharp and trying afflictions, as they arose out of the circumstances of his own life. In this chapter, the history of the Patriarch...
Genesis 34:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ver. 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob ,.... Who is supposed to be at this time about fourteen or fifteen years of age: for that she was but about nine or ten years old is...
Genesis 34:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. Ver. 1. Went out to see the daughters of the land. ] Who went abroad at this time, with timbre...
Genesis 34:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out From her father's house into the city, out of curiosity, there being then, as Josephus asserts, ( Ant. , lib. 50. c. 20,) a great concourse of people to a feas...
Genesis 34:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

SHAMEFUL SIN IN JACOB'S HOUSE Jacob had been concerned about his own house: now he must learn through painful experience that when he puts his house first, he will find trouble and sorrow from his...
Genesis 34:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Dinah Dishonoured. B. C. 1732. 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jac...
Genesis 34:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

GENESIS CHAPTER 34 Dinah going forth to see the daughters of the country, is abused and defiled by Shechem, son of Hamor, Genesis 34:1,2 ; who loves her, Genesis 34:3 ; desires to marry her,...
Genesis 34:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.' Note the stress on her pedigree. She was the chief's daughter by his primary wife. It was not r...
Genesis 34:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 34:1 . To see the daughters of the land.] To make their acquaintance—to pay them a friendly visit. Genesis 34:3 . He loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damse...
Genesis 34:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 33:20 ; Genesis 34:1 In erecting this altar Jacob both set up a witness against the false worship and idolatry of the people among whom he dwelt, and at the same time provided a church...
Genesis 34:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 34:1 . Dinah. One of the oldest of Jacob's daughters, for he had many: Genesis 37:35 . Josephus intimates that it was a festival day, and it is probable that she had been invited by ladie...
Genesis 34:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Dinah the daughter of Leah. .. went out to see Dinah’s inglorious march I. SHE CAME. II. SHE SAW. III. SHE WAS CONQUERED. ( J. Henry Burn, B. D. ) Dinah’s dishonour I. THAT THERE IS G...
Genesis 34:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob ,—if Dinah was born before Joseph ( Genesis 30:21 ) she was probably in her seventh year when Jacob reache...
Genesis 34:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. Dinah had probably been born in the fourteenth year of Jacob's service in Mesopotamia. She was,...
Genesis 34:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 2272. B.C. 1732. Dinah. Genesis 30:21 Genesis 46:15 the daughters. Genesis 26:34 Genesis 27:46 Genesis 28:6 Genesis 30:13 Jeremiah 2:36 1 Timothy 5:13 Titus 2:5
Genesis 34:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Dinah was then about fifteen or sixteen years of age when she went out to see the daughters of the land — Probably on some public day. She went to see; yet that was not all, she went to be seen too...

Genesis 34:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 34:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 34:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 34:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 34:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 34:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 34:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 34:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 34:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 34:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 34:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 34:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 34:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 34:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 34:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes