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<p>Jacobs sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many are concerned at the shamefulness of sin that never lay to heart the sinfulness of it. It is here called <i>folly in Israel</i> (<a class="bibleref" title="Gen.34.7" href="/passage/?search=Gen.34.7">Gen. 34:7</a>), according to the language of after-times; for Israel was not yet a people, but a family only. Note, 1. Uncleanness is folly; for it sacrifices the favour of God, peace of conscience, and all the soul can pretend to that is sacred and honourable, to a base and brutish lust. 2. This folly is most shameful in <i>Israel</i>, in a family of Israel, where God is known and worshipped, as he was in Jacobs tents, by the name of <i>the God of Israel</i>. Folly in Israel is scandalous indeed. 3. It is a good thing to have sin stamped with a bad name: uncleanness is here proverbially called <i>folly in Israel</i>, <a class="bibleref" title="2Sam.13.12" href="/passage/?search=2Sam.13.12">2 Sam. 13:12</a>. Dinah is here called <i>Jacobs daughter</i>, for warning to all the daughters of Israel, that they betray not themselves to this folly.</p>
<p class="tab-1">Hamor came to treat with Jacob himself, but he turns him over to his sons; and here we have a particular account of the treaty, in which, it is a shame to say, the Canaanites were more honest than the Israelites.</p>