Genesis 34:29

29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives took they captive, and despoiled even all that was in the house.

Genesis 34:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:29

And all their wealth
Or "power" ^F15 or "strength"; every thing that made them mighty and powerful; their gold and silver, their jewels, and rich furniture of their houses, their arms and weapons of war, their goods and substance, in which they trafficked:

and all their little ones and their wives took they captive:
they spared the women and children, as was usual war, and in the plunder of towns and cities:

and spoiled even all that [was] in the house;
of Shechem or Hamor, or in any of the houses of the inhabitants; they rifled and plundered everyone, and took away whatsoever they found in them; but as Jacob disapproved of this unjust, cruel, bloody, and perfidious action, so no doubt, as he set the captives at liberty, he restored to them their cattle and substance.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (Mlyx) "siquidem" (lyx) "proprie potentia, robur", Drusius; so Ainsworth.

Genesis 34:29 In-Context

27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and despoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

28 They took their sheep and their oxen and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;

29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives took they captive, and despoiled even all that was in the house.

30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me to make me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house."

31 And they said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?"