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She went to see, yet that was not all, she went to be seen too she went to see the daughters of the land, but, it may be, with some thoughts of the sons of the land too. Her pretence was to see the daughters of the land, to see how they dressed, and how they danced, and what was fashionable among them. Note, It is a very good thing for children to love home it is parents' wisdom to make it easy to them, and children's duty then to be easy in it. Being an only daughter, she thought herself solitary at home, having none of her own age and sex to converse with and therefore she must needs go abroad to divert herself, to keep off melancholy, and to accomplish herself by conversation better than she could in her father's tents. 1) probably it was at a ball, or on some public day. She went out, perhaps unknown to her father, but by the connivance of her mother, to see the daughters of the land ( v. She is reckoned now but fifteen or sixteen years of age when she here occasioned so much mischief. 25-31).ĭinah was, for aught that appears, Jacob's only daughter, and we may suppose her therefore the mother's fondling and the darling of the family, and yet she proves neither a joy nor a credit to them for those children seldom prove either the best or the happiest that are most indulged. The perfidious and bloody revenge which Simeon and Levi took upon them ( v. The circumcision of the Shechemites, pursuant to that treaty ( v. A treaty of marriage between her and Shechem who had defiled her ( v. "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." Grace does not run in the blood, and yet the interrupting of the entail of grace does not cut off the entail of profession and visible church-privileges: nay, Jacob"s sons, though they were his grief in some things, yet were all taken into covenant with God. Jacob's children were circumcised, were well taught, and prayed for, and had very good examples set them yet some of them proved very untoward. That which is dearest to us may prove our greatest vexation, and we may meet with the greatest crosses in those things of which we said, "This same shall comfort us."Ģ. At this chapter begins the story of Jacob's afflictions in his children, which were very great, and are recorded to show,ġ.