The Intrusion of Shechem and Tragedy of
Dinah (The Old Story: When The
Desire of The Eyes Is Bigger than Faith, Love of One's Own
People and Character of Autonomy, It Causes So Much Grief
and Destruction)
Genesis 34: 1And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare
unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2And
when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the
country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled
her. 3And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and
he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. 4And
Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel
to wife. 5And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his
daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and
Jacob held his peace until they were come. 6And Hamor the
father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7And
the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and
the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had
wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter;
which thing ought not to be done. 8And Hamor communed with
them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your
daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9And make ye
marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take
our daughters unto you. 10And ye shall dwell with us: and the
land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get
you possessions therein. 11And Shechem said unto her father and
unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye
shall say unto me I will give. 12Ask me never so much dowry and
gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but
give me the damsel to wife. 13And the sons of Jacob answered
Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he
had defiled Dinah their sister: 14And they said unto them, We
cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is
uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us: 15But in this
will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every
male of you be circumcised; 16Then will we give our daughters
unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will
dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17But if ye will
not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our
daughter, and we will be gone. 18And their words pleased Hamor,
and Shechem Hamor’s son. 19And the young man deferred not
to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s
daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his
father. 20And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of
their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
21These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in
the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large
enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives,
and let us give them our daughters. 22Only herein will the men
consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if
every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of
theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will
dwell with us. 24And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son
hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every
male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his
city. 25And 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. 26And they slew Hamor and
Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out
of Shechem’s house, and went out. 27The sons of Jacob
came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had
defiled their sister. 28They took their sheep, and their oxen,
and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which
was in the field, 29And all their wealth, and all their little
ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all
that was in the house. 30And 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.
31And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an
harlot?
Note: Even though the defilement and marriage of their
sister to an outsider was not acceptable, neither was the
deceptive method of punishment from Jacob's sons Knowledge
Is Power
Question: Should we show concern
for our sisters as Jacob's sons did their sister? Should we
allow the contra-cultural, controlled media
to treat our women (Northern
European descendants) as harlots? To racially oppress us
through misusing the deceived
or exploiting gullible women of our race? How about the public
and degrading showing of arms and legs, and the lewdness our
adversaries present in movies, on billboards, on TV and other
places that people view?
Have you ever noticed that the billboard presentations give
preference to the white? Our Nordish race's women have
relatively, first-choice inherent beauty even as Dinah (Semitic
and trained to honor God) was implicitly very attractive,
or perhaps more beautiful than the women of the land of Hamor.
Our race has been known for its Christian outreach and
civilization of the world, and our women are the more beautiful
and desirable. We are obligated as a race to collectively stop
the exploitation
and abdication
of our women.
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