Genesis 34:27

27 The [other] sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34:27 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:27

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain
That is, the rest of them, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it; understanding what their two brothers had done, they came and joined them, and partook of stripping the slain of their clothes, or from them what they found of any worth about them:

and spoiled the city;
plundered it of all its goods and substance, spoiled all the inhabitants of it of their wealth:

because they had defiled their sister;
one of them had done it, which is imputed to them all, they not restraining him from it, when it was in their power; and perhaps approving of it, and made a laugh of and jest at it; or however did not punish him for it.

Genesis 34:27 In-Context

25 And it happened [that] on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.

26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out.

27 The [other] sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

28 They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever [was] in the field.

29 They captured and plundered all that [was] in the houses--all their wealth, their little ones, and their women.