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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 34:2
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when Shechem the son of Hamor, etc.] From whom the city had its name, near which Jacob and his family now were: the Hivite, prince of the country; Hamor was an Hivite, which was one of the nations of the land of Canaan, and this man was the prince or a principal man of that nation, as well as of Shechem. Josephus f1561 calls him a king: when the son of this man saw her; that is, Dinah, what a beautiful person she was, and was enamoured with her: he took her: by force, as the Targum of Jonathan: and lay with her, and defiled her; or “humbled” or “afflicted her” f1562; and it is a rule with the Jews, that every such act, which is done by force, is called an humiliation and affliction f1563: the child begotten in this act of fornication is said f1564 by them to be Asenath, who was had into Egypt, and brought up by Potipherah’s wife as her daughter, and afterwards married to Joseph, (<014145>Genesis 41:45,50).
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