PART 5 LEVI PROPHETIC ROOTS: INVESTIGATION OF OT LEVITICAL PATRIARCHISM
“THE LEVI PROPHETIC ROOTS BEGIN TO SPROUT”
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“Simeon and Levi are brothers:their swords are weapons of violence. Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.” Genesis 49:5-7
BIBLE PASSAGE: BOOK OF GENESIS 34-45, THE LIFE ROOTS OF LEVI AS COMPARED TO THE MESSIAH CHRIST’S NONLEVITICAL PURE ROOTS
BOOK OF GENESIS 49:5-8: MAIN HOUSE OF LEVI POINT
Q. COULD THIS DARK BIBLE PASSAGE REVEAL ELDER JACOB’S, LEVI’S PROPHETIC ACCUSER ROOTS?
GENESIS 49:5-8 “Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.”
READ GENESIS 34-35: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+34-35&version=NKJV
Q2. COULD THE CHRIST’S BIBLE LINEAGE REVEAL THE MESSIAHS’ NON ACCUSER PROPHETIC APOSTOLIC MINISTER , NON LEVITICAL ROOTS?
JESUS..LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH: (From which the nonAccuser Messiah,Jesus Christ descended, on his Mother Mary’s side) Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.”GENESIS 49:5-8 KJV
**THE CHRIST, whose Father was GOD,but whose human mother MARY had a DNA descending from KING DAVID, TRIBE OF JUDAH, which was servant leader agricultural, craftsman, NOT Levi..thus NO “generational mysogyny, chaotic temple priestly dysfunction or pent up big ANGER would be passed down through the BLOOD LINE.
INVESTIGATING GENESIS 34
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE: the life history of Levi, his kid sister, Dinah, and Levi’s relatives, family clan..and the many chaotic,deeply angry violent mayhem.
LET US FIRST examine BOOK OF GENESIS 34, then, following doing that, we plan to investigate in deep depth the following GENESIS 35 chapter.
GENESIS 35: IT’S ALMOST ALL ABOUT THE EXCEEDINGLY HIGH CALLED, UPCOMING SENIOR TRIBAL LEADER LEVI
- 1.And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
DINAH was the only beloved dear daughter of LEAH and JACOB. Her big brothers were SIMEON and LEVI (what super role models..):
“Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. “Genesis 49:5
- 2.And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
LEVI’S YOUNGER SISTER, DINAH has been observed out and about, wandering around the area.. AND neighbor, Prince SHECHEM, from a neighboring tribe sees her, falls head over heels for her but then looses all form of personal self government and then chooses to defile her (raping her).
THE FORCING OF Dinah, by the wanton Shechem, potentially flings down the big ready revenge and retaliatory proverbial gauntlet…greatly upsetting each one of Patriarch Jacob ( Dinah’s Father) and each one of her eleven big brothers. Each one rises to avenge not only Dinah’s honor, but that of their entire family.
- V3. And his (Prince Shechem’s) soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
HOWEVER, PRINCE SHECHEM has a tender side and actually falls in love with Dinah. This adds a new dimension to this family honor drama. It is not just about Dinah’s rape and the insult to her and the families honor, but now there is a new need for wisdom on how Jacob and the Prince’s father work things out…in order to avoid or minimize big tribal warfare.
- V4. And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
PRINCE SHECHEM appears to be NAIVE about the ramifications of his sexual assault on his close neighboring patriarch’s only dear daughter. However, noticeably, the dull of discernment young Prince he gives zero evidence that he feels any remorse or guilt. Rather he is self absorbed: only interested in getting his leader Father to get him whatever he wants.
- V5. And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
Someone quickly brings the horrifically bad news to Elder Patriarch and Dad Jacob. And once he finds out what is going on…he is furious and in shock … yet displays remarkable senior patriarchal self governing power, (temperance, self control under deep duress) as he practices wisdom and much constraint.
Rather than wildly ordering each one of his twelve tribal sons and all of the surely many servants and field workers to track down and slaughter Hamor,Shechem and their entire tribe, he proceeds to preserve peace and contacts Hamor to negotiate and to problem solve.
Yet, later due to angry, wounded pride and rebellion to patriarchal authority…there would even eventually be a massive slaughter..due to future tribal patriarch Levi..
- V6. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
NOTE: The two wise, emotionally mature, often experience, able and proven, ASTUTELY COOL, SENIOR PATRIARCHAL TRIBAL HEADS attempt to at first meet to resolve matters between themselves (as all their CHILDREN were “under their house, tribal, parental, traditional authority.
EACH PARENT, TRIBAL ELDER acted mature, proven and by this point in each of their long lives. And each has developed self control (advanced personal self government) which now needed as this major tribal crisis tends to boil over to the point of creating big violence, much tribal blood shed, extended each patriarchal family big suffering and loss.
APPARENTLY the two elders met to negotiate peace….to avoid causing much more family pain…which they agreed upon..but when alone by themselves..minus any hot heads who were plotting revenge and hot headed big blood shed.
THE ASSAULT ON DINAH most certainly had caused deep private insult and pain for JACOB. However, instead of acting out in personal bitterness, we take note of his actions. They paint a wise PICTURE of his emotional stability, his selflessness..for he took the higher moral ground and forsook his own RIGHT to GET EVEN… on behalf of a larger vision of the area COMMON GOOD.
- ASIDE: PERSONAL SELF GOVERNMENT will be a key to moving past this enormous apostolic test, deep supernatural, natural leader wisdom, and GREAT EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, and having leadership, MAJORLY OVER SEEING, ACCURATE PERCEPTIVE CLEAR FORESIGHT.
HOWEVER, there were many many more people involved: not simply two cool level headed elder leaders.
THE HEIGHTENED TENSION, however, does begin to have strong affect on each of Jacob’s eleven sons, who are far less emotionally stable and level headed…most especially on supremely dysfunctional Levi and the hot headed Simeon.
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V7. And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
HISTORICAL SETTING: By this time period, JACOBS progeny (male kids) were not just starting out. Yet this was the nucleus, building the core of the historically famous TWELVE TRIBES OF THE HEBREW NATION, aka ISRAEL there is started to formed a NATION known as ISRAEL,
AND because they were each “God called and Commissioned, and SENT to dwell in, to establish and to thrive and reproduce a type of COLONY..we may regard them doing this..as being “APOSTOLIC” (spiritual trailblazing, SENT /COMMISSIONED by the Living Lord) (NOTE: while there is NOT word for “apostle” anywhere in the Old Testament, in hindsight, we can draw a parallel between the HISTORY before, during the time of the OT Levitical Law, to when JESUS CHRIST Messiah one day descended and FULFILLED the LAW.
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill it.” Matthew 5:17
- FOR ANY READER WHO MAY NOT CLEARLY UNDERSTAND:the 12 HEBREW (apostolic)TRIBES made up of the SONS and DAUGHTERS born to each one of the 12 SONS OF PATRIARCH JACOB.(for MUCH MORE about the 12, read PART 2 of LEVI PROPHETIC ROOTS)
WE NOTE: Whereas mature Jacob wisely diffused a very combustible, very angry, unsteady,tense emergency situation…and fully believed that he and Hamor had resolved all the issues..and that now things were going to settle back down…
(As in many difficult real life situations) …past Jacob’s field of knowledge, out there in the fields there were Levi and Simeon hatching a big attack…blood thristy and not one bit in accord, submitted to the decision of their patriarchal elder.
- V8. And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
ELDER HAMOR proposes a GAME PLAN which will remove all SHAME brought about on DINAH as well as ALL of the 12 TRIBES and extended tribal desert family.
His Big Plan is for Patriarch Jacob giving DINAH his permission to wed Prince Shechem. This would calm all the raw nerves, remove the stigma of the rape attack, and would once and for all cement the both big tribal families from attack and war. Conceiveably Dinah wedding Shechem would possible remove the reproach on Dinah and her whole family. SELAH… not DOGMA.
BY ELDER HAMOR offers an over all wise plan to diffuse the unstable tinder box of human passions, heightened emotions and deeply angry upset.
- V9. And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
PATRIARCH HAMOR now turns toward Elder Jacob in an attempts to resolve each families big issues..and to thwart impending ALL OUT TRIBAL WAR. Which is all well and good.
What is not obvious is that the Hamor tribes were not CALLED to be the NATION OF ISREAL and had they intermarried, this would have thrown off God’s inherited (natural, spiritual ) DNA by INTERMINGLING, MIXING IN the BLOOD of the GENTILES, foreigners.(Now, as this was PRIOR, before the institution of the Old Testament Law..it is simply a THEORY of the writers. LATER. intermarriage with a non Hebrew tribe, 10 Commandments,Torah abiding, Law keeper was prohibited by the OT Law. And it was not until Exodus that Moses got the Ten Commandments.
NOTE: AND WHILE presuming that HAMOR was intentionally attempting to intermarry for sake of breaking down the ISRAELITE family GOD CALLED SEED / lineage….we do note that possibility…but mainly understand that Hamor was trying to safe guard HIS OWN KITH AND (out of self control) KIN
- V10. And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
SELAH NOTE: First Patriarch Hamor had at first suggest that the important problem be resolved with “giving them their women to inter- marry” (above V. 9) …but now he ads MONEY,BUSINESS tempting offers of LAND, POSSESSION, BUSINESS TRADE…
- V11. And Shechem said unto her (Dinah’s) father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
SO, to this writer, it appears that PRINCE SHECHEM is deeply sincere..that he truly DOES really love DINAH..just poor in accurate perception, and lacking in other centered mature awareness, a moral compass..but all most strongly affected by the LACK OF BOUNDARIES…and his very very POOR missing “personal self government.”
- V12. Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
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SLY SCHEMING BEHIND JACOB’S PATRIARCHAL BACK
- V13. And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
NOTE: The writer already wrote in depth, concerning the twelve sons and Dinah’s, continually chaotic and majorly dysfunctional, deeply deceptive, personal, primarily chaotic entire family foundation..inPART 2 OF THIS SERIES
(YET NOW we note that the sly,dysfunctional sow SEEDS are beginning to sprout.LEVI PROPHET ROOTS: INVESTIGATION OF OT LEVITICAL PATRIARCHISM PART 2)
- V14. And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach UNTO US:
The BAND OF MIGHTY TRIBAL BROTHERS (Jacob’s) reason among themselves (the rape of their baby sister) is actually meant as a personal family ATTACK against THEM.
AND rather than view such a deeply PREDATORY /INJURIOUS ATTACK as “demeaning each of their beloved Sister” they instead collectively misinterpret as deeply PERSONAL and COLLECTIVE FAMILY SLIGHT..one that triggered a deeply defensive warlike response..and/or perhaps even some accuser centered BLOOD LUST….(NOTE: Sounds like the ROOTS of similar FAMILY, RACIAl, ETHNOS AGAINST ETHNOS, DENOMINATIONAL, PERSONAL “HAT FIELDS AND MCCOYS” DIVISIVE ongoing, generational endless feuds..
SURELY, nobody knows exactly for sure…
BUT if any worried (prayerfully, emotionally, genuinely humble,both male, female, mature) Reader, will read through LEVI PROPHETIC ROOTS PART 1 and MOSTLY part 2…then hopefully, you may see the reasons for this always submitted, fear free eagle writer writing thus as “maybe so” PRIOR TO CHRIST’S NEW TESTAMENT NON LEGALISTIC FREEDOM, perhaps O.T. patriarchal TRADITIONAL along with the deep roots found (See PART 2) JACOBIAN CHAOTIC DYSFUNCTIONAL family resentment against mothers, leader women:*
ALL OF THIS COMBINES (in Levitical Christ following Old Testament effect )to form a very disturbed, highly revengeful, supremely HOT (not level) HEADED COLLECTIVE FAMILY ARM, who are every emotional, and who pay NO HEAD to the SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY of the FAMILY HEAD, PATRIARCH ISRAEL( Big Daddy JACOB) who has already made what he hopes will be a calming PEACE KEEPING,FORMED GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT, which will PREVENT A LOT OF ACCUSATION AND BLOOD SHED….with the other family ELDER LEADER, CHIEF neighboring PATRIARCH HAMOR…
AND EACH is personally AND as a ROVING BAND, in deep rebellion, out from UNDER wise ELDER /CHIEF PARENTAL, TRADITIONAL, CHAIN OF COMMAND, true authority and then proceed to actively and repeatedly ignore all responsible “GOVERNING TRUE BOUNDARIES.”
LEVI’S PROPHETIC ROOTS (Repeat: those sown in PART 2)… now begin to fully manifest and flourish.
OVERSTEPPING PERSONAL, ELDER, SPIRITUAL GOVERNING, PARENTAL, LEGAL AUTHORITY is fully demonstrated…yet, what JACOB sowed in his deceptive, rebellious YOUTH (his own pre patriarchal untrue ROOTS) was in turn duly REAPED in( nearly all) of his fiery leader children.**
** MOST NOTABLY JOSEPH and BABY BENJAMIN (born as the only 2 true children of the preferred wife RACHEL and JACOB..did not act in his similar mysogynous, disrespectful to over real sight authority, rebellious leader manner. (sadly, perhaps if JACOB had respected, been an impartial, supremely attentive, not having favorites, but instead caring equally for EACH OF of his sired children …then perhaps the many OTHERS would have also turned out as well)
AND Old Testament “LEVITICAL PATRIARCHISM” (role models the Accuser not the accuser ISAIAH 11:2-3 CHRIST/THE MESSIAH and supplants FALSE FATHERING( love, acceptance only when it is EARNED,ACHIEVED, FULLY EDUCATED ,or “OBEYS ALL OF THE RELIGIOUS IN HOUSE APOSTOlIC GOVERNING ORDER REQUIRED many LAWS).** a lot more on this and LUKE 1:17 needing to be in fully operation as a requirement for true leader REVIVAL.
WHERE AS THE ISAIAH 11:2-3 MESSIAH’S non accuser NON LEVITICAL but found in JUDAH perceiver roots were inherited from the portrait of the (apostolic Matthew 18:15-18? in NT) Hero Role Model of the CREATOR LOVING FATHER as He TOUGH LOVE CONFRONTS , BUT NOT DEMEAN OR DISRESPECT, First Born leader Sinnning SON, ADAM in GENESIS 3. (upcoming..an entire separate BIBLE STUDY JUST ON THIS.) BUT in the mean time www.iffmmenandwomen.net for a few MEN AND LEADER WOMAN IN HOUSE/IN MINISTRY ROLES Selahs.
THE BAND OF WARRING BROTHERS GAME PLAN
NOTE: This BIG GAME PLAN is rooted in the ROOTS of rebellion to the wisdom of the senior PATRIARCH, their very own SPIRITUAL, PARENTING God given authority…THE FATHER OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL:JACOB.
ALSO it is a conniving, cunning plan based on adept DECEPTION:
NOTE:The skilled rebellious BAND OF TRIBAL BROTHERS combine to devise a manipulative evil subversive, murderous Game Plan.
FIRST they pretend to obey the GAME PLAN set forth by their
SENIOR PATRIARCHAL AUTHORITY, NATURAL FATHER JACOB as well as CHIEF TRIBAL LEADER HAMOR. (which is lying, deceiving the commands of the NATURAL TRIBAL, PARENT FATHERS) (later this would be one of the Exodus 20:12 Mosaic TEN COMMANDMENTS
“Honour your father AND your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
AND THIS IS WHAT THEY ALL DID: The entire BAND OF REBELLIOUS BROTHERS lied as they each pretended to guarantee that there would be retaliation from any of them …and no injurious harm:
15. But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
NOTE: They each gave their solemn WORD that they would CONSENT to the offers (of business, wives) which had been offered by HAMOR to of them. (which actually did honor /comply with what each of their FATHER had honorably previously agreed to)
HOWEVER, when they went BEYOND FATHER JACOB’S AGREEMENT, each of them then set up new TERMS which they added ONTO the FIRST JACOB (PEACEFUL) AGREEMENT. The 12 sons of JACOB added that IF THEY were going to keep PEACE and AGREE to ACCEPT the prior JACOB- HAMOR AGREEMENT that FIRST the HAMOR TRIBE had to add a new stipulation..that of every male in the Hamor Tribe being required to be be circumcised.
- In passed down JACOB SUPPLANTER (LEVI PROPHETIC DECEIVER EVEN AMONG FAMILY) roots. (see PART 2 of LEVI PROPHETIC ROOTS)…the BAND OF RAGING 12 SONS proceeded to lie to their father.
Q. ONE may ask HOW?
A.The response being: by OMITTING, laying low and failing to ALLOW JACOB to catch wind of the new added agreement condition.
UNDERMINE HIS FATHERING/GOVERNING, REVERED PATRIARCHAL BOUNDERIES..
AT FIRST they all pretend to agree with the TWO PATRIARCH’S AGREEMENT
16. Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
THEY THEN USE COERCION to “BLACK MAIL” (apply manipulative undue emotional pressure) on HAMOR’S TRIBE to comply with THEIR NEW ADDED STIPULATION.. by threatening to withdraw DINAH from being allowed to wed PRINCE SHECHEM. (using their own feminine kindred as manipulative BAIT)
17. But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
NOTE That JACOB’S SONS not only lied /deceived their own peers with in the opposing TRIBE but they also deceived the PATRIARCH HAMOR who was technically “AN ELDER.”
18. And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
NOTE: HAMOR and SHECHEM actually fell for this lie, as it appears that both of them wrongly believed that THE PATRIARCH JACOB HAD ADDED THIS NEW CLAUS AND HAD AGREED TO COMMANDING THE HAMOR TRIBAL MEN TO EACH BE CIRCUMCISED.
19. And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
NOTE: It appears that SHECHEM was lacking in personal self government when it came to attractive leader females, but he appears to make up for it in not having deceptive motives. In other words, he truly did LOVE Dinah. AND he deferred from agreeing from getting circumsised. And out of the entire HAMOR extended TRIBAL FAMILY, God’s Holy Word singles SHECHEM out for being more noble than all of the many others.
20. And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
NOTE: HAMOR AND SHECHEM are convinced that the new command to have all of the men get circumcised is AUTHORIZED by Patriarch JACOB himself…so they in turn, convince all of the fellow tribesman to INFILTRATE THE LAND, and to TAKE DAUGHTERS for WIVES and to INTERMARRY …
21.These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
NOW: they state the new conditions for V 21:
22. Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
NOTE: Paraphrase
“FIRST THE GOOD NEW…you expect to live in PEACE and YOU marry their finest HEBREW DAUGHTERS…
NOW THE BAD NEWS..but FIRST each of you must meet this ONE TINY CONDITION…”
AND AFTER making that surely shocking announcement, perhaps due to the strong reaction of the MEN, Patriarch HAMOR then attempts to encourage them by sweetening the entire deal.
23. Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of their’s be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
24. And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
NOT: Hamor and Shechem heap accolades for all males who proceeded to submit to the agreement..all so that SHECHEM could marry DINAH.
REMINDING THE WRITER OF “ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL…”
25. And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
NOTE: Three days after the circumcision process. when the tribesmen were all out of commission…none other than TWO of the duplicitous rebellious sons of JACOB (LEVI along with SIMEON) got out their swords and personally, went through the entire incapacitated tribe and savagely butchered every single one.
26. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
NOTE: LEVI and SIMEON even slew HAMOR and his son SHECHEM …and seized DINAH, to take her back home….(but that they did was OUT FROM UNDER TRUE PATRIARCHAL /TRIBAL, FAMILY, SPIRITUAL, PASSED DOWN TRADITIONAL GOVERNING GENUINE LEADER AUTHORITY.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
NOTE: THE SONS OF JACOB: all of the heads the 12 tribes of ISREAL..rose up and rebelled over the command of their father.AND sought revenge in a merciless cruel method and arrogant, relentless decimating manner.
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 spoiled even all that was in the house.
NOTE: Each of them displayed (ironically) a rapacious, out of from under genuine authority, highly unsubmissive brutal manner
30. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink 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.
NOTE: Patriarch JACOB is at once shocked, mortified and deeply grieved. It had always been dangerous living amongst many of the neighboring area tribes..but many times, his honor and abiding trustworthiness had kept them from attacking him and his big extended family.
And as the verse suggests, the JACOB whole family, although they were reknown as being THE TWELVE HEBREW TRIBES..were all vastly OUTNUMBERED….which made LEVI and SIMEON’S DECEPTION and enormous TREACHERY and SLAUGHTER then reflect backward, onto HIM and also upon the rest of the many tribal /family members…
...all of which also then created great regional DISFAVOR and surely provoked great MURMURING, immediate DISTRUST and the stirring up of buried former past resentments…all of which an experienced patriarch could cautiously PERCEIVE and DISCERN.
THUS Jacob went to leader up front CONFRONT both of his ruinous chieftain sons.
And the writer points to the manner in which they avoid taking any responsibility for the brutal bloodbath. And never own up to overstepping JACOB’S authority.
IT IS if both LEVI and SIMEON each only regard THEMSELVES as THE CENTER of JUSTICE…
* talk about irony: GENESIS 34 clearly shows SIMEON taking a morally superior tone as he seeks REVENGE for Prince Hamor’s sexual misconduct…for unholy SIMEON was named for sleeping with his own father JACOB’S concubine!
ALSO rather than deferring and showing RESPECT to the authority of not simply their FATHER but also the FAMILY TRIBAL CHIEF…it is all very evident on how utter unconcerned about ANYONE else’s decisions, authority, boundaries, but instead proceed to disregard the real ISSUE (out from under authority, murder, taking revenge) by rationalizing, blaming SHECHEM, whom their PATRIARCH had forgiven…for the wrong he had done toward their sister.
31. And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
COMING…PART 7
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