Genesis 34:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

You have not only discomposed my mind, but perplexed my affairs, and brought me into such troubles and dangers as I am never likely to escape. You have made me odious to the inhabitants of the land, who will impute this perfidious and bloody fact to my contrivance. Few in number; Heb. men of number, i.e. few; for such can easily be numbered. So this phrase is used Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 33:6, opposite to which are men without number, 2 Chronicles 12:3. They shall slay me: he could expect no other in human reason, and they were hindered from so doing only by the hand of the great God smiting them with terror, Genesis 35:5.

Genesis 34:30

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.