Genesis 34:29

29 And all their goodes all their childern and their wyues toke they captyue and made havock of all that was in the houses.

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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Genesis 34:29 In-Context

27 Than came the sonnes of Iacob vpon the deede and spoyled the cyte because they had defyled their sister:
28 and toke their shepe oxen asses and what so euer was in the cyte and also in ye feldes
29 And all their goodes all their childern and their wyues toke they captyue and made havock of all that was in the houses.
30 And Iacob sayde to Simeon and Leui: ye haue troubled me ad made me styncke vnto the inhabitatours of the lande both to the Canaanytes and also vnto the Pherezites. And I am fewe in nombre. Wherfore they shall gather them selves together agaynst me and sley me and so shall I and my house be dystroyed.
31 And they answered: shuld they deall with oure sister as wyth an whoore?
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