Old Testament - Genesis 34:1-31 - (Sin at Shechem)
Channel: Calvary Chapel Windward
Date: 2016-02-06

Old Testament - Genesis 34:1-31 - (Sin at Shechem) - CC Windward - Pastor Tim

Old Testament - Genesis 34:1-31 - Sin at Shechem - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode #: - Original Air Date: 7/8/2012 A.D.

PASTOR TIM's NOTES:


Genesis 34:1-31
“The Sin at Shechem”
1. Dinah is DISGRACED
Vs. 1-7
1a. There were 3 factors that lead to her being DISGRACED.
 Dinah was the daughter of unloved Leah.
 Jacob was not where God wanted him to be geographically or spiritually left
her particularly vulnerable.
 Dinah is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“went out to see the daughters of the land” (v. 1).

Gen 24:2-3, Gen 26:34-35
The Hebrew term “went out” bears a sense of impropriety.2
Martin Luther once said,
“You cannot stop the birds from flying over your head but you can stop them from
nesting in your hair.”
1b. By DISGRACED WE MEAN THAT SHE WAS RAPED.
The three verbs (“took … lay … violated”) describe a progression of brutality—
aggravated rape.
Dinah was 8,9,10 11, maybe 12 at the oldest.
1c. Her DISGRACE leads to a marriage request.
Two things are shocking about the request.
 The request itself.
 The response of Jacob.
2. Shechem is DETERIMED to marry Dinah.
Vs. 8-12
2a. Hamor is DETERMINED to gain permission for the marriage
by making an offer they can’t refuse.
3 aspects to the offer
 He offers to have all them become one people by marriage.
 He offers to allow Jacob to prosper materially.
A shortcut to the promised land! Matt 4:8-10
 He offers to pay any dowry they suggest.
3. The DECEPTION of Jacob’s sons is for the purpose of revenge.
Vs. 13-17
3a. The DECEPTION is a counter offer to the marriage proposal.
Their anger was justified.

2 Gordon J. Wenham, Genesis 16–50, Vol. 2, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1994), p. 310.
Their vengeance was not and we see why?
Did they just kill Shechem?
NO,THEY KILLED EVERY MAN IN THE VILLAGE.
Circumcision, Israel’s most cherished symbol of faith, would now become a tool
of inhumanity.
4. The DISCUSSION at the gate of the city had to be convincing.
Vs. 18-24
4a. The DISCUSSION included the need for the men to be
circumcised.
And here Hamor and his son showed themselves as masters of deceit.
4b. The DISCUSSION included the motivation of gaining all the
wealth of Jacob’s family.
5. The evil DEED was done.
Vs. 25-31
5a. The evil DEED was the murder of all the men in the city.
It was Dinah’s two oldest big brothers who exacted the revenge.
5b. The evil DEED included the other brothers.
There had been no equity here, only exponential revenge.
Years later, as Jacob on his deathbed was blessing his sons, Jacob would pause
and pronounce an anti-blessing on Simeon and Levi:
 Gen 49:5-7
5c. The evil DEED would now endanger the entire family.
Jacob was pathetic—for what he did not say.
And what was the response of his killer sons?
They fiercely shouted back, “"Should he treat our sister like a harlot?"” (v. 31).
If Jacob had gone to Bethel in full obedience, none of this would have happened.
Jacob’s sole hope, and our only hope, lay in the ultimate Son of Jacob, the ultimate Israel, Christ
the Savior who bore the wrath of God for our sin, turning it away from all who believe.



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