“Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”-Genesis 35:2-3 I mentioned in my last post […]
35-1: How ancient Israel’s understanding of God’s nature differs from modern believers
Today we begin Genesis Chapter 35. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Beit-El and live there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled ‘Esau your brother.”-Genesis 35:1 I’m sure anybody who […]
34-4: Jacob fails to exercise proper authority in his home
Did God call Jacob to go to Shechem? Absolutely not! Okay, technically it’s in the promised land. But it’s not where God called Jacob to go. He was supposed to travel to Hebron. And as we have already seen, in the final analysis, this “partial obedience” resulted in the rape of his daughter and the […]
34-3: Simeon and Levi avenge the rape of Dinah
But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused me trouble by making me stink in the opinion of the local inhabitants, the Kena‘ani and the P’rizi. Since I don’t have many people, they’ll align themselves together against me and attack me; and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”–Genesis 34:30 So King […]
34-2: King Hamor meets Jacob to make amends for his son’s crime
“Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him just as Jacob’s sons were coming in from the field. When they heard what had happened, the men were saddened and were very angry at the outrage this man had committed against Isra’el by raping Jacob’s daughter, something that is simply not done.“-Genesis […]
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