What a Mess!
Genesis 34
Matt Vorhees
November 21, 2021

Introduction:

“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” – Rom. 15:4


I. Dinah – Beware of worldly (Gen. 34:1)


II. Shechem – Beware of growing (Gen. 34:2-4)


III. Jacob – Beware of getting too (Gen. 34:5-7)


IV. Hamor – Beware of unhealthy (Gen. 34:8-12)


V. Simeon and Levi – Beware of excessive (Gen. 34:13-31)


“The appeaser and the avengers, mutually exasperated, and swayed respectively by fear and fury, were perhaps equidistant from true justice. They exemplify two perennial but sterile reactions to evil.” -Kidner


Closing Thoughts