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Dinah, the Daughter of Jacob, felt bored\u2014and she had good reason to be. Life in a goatskin tent did not offer much attraction for a girl in her teens, especially since her parents were aged and she had only brothers with whom to talk. Dinah had not had much of a chance to relax. Her life had been nomadic, constantly on the move. Originally migrating from the city of Harran in Mesopotamia\u2014about four hundred miles to the northeast\u2014her family continued to wander. Again and again after her family halted for a while, the tent pins would be taken out of the ground and on they would go. They would be on the move once more, moving step by step to keep pace with the animals.
\nThe Lure of the City<\/strong>
\nThen they arrived in Canaan. Dinah\u2019s father pitched their tents near Shalem, which belonged to the city of Shechem, and bought a piece of land. Apparently he wanted to settle in the land God had promised to his forefathers Abraham and Isaac, for through the promise the land was also his.
\nIt was remarkable, however, that Jacob did not travel several more miles to Bethel. There he had made a promise to God some twenty years earlier, shortly before he moved out of Canaan. Had his love for God cooled off?
\nShechem was situated in the strategic pass that cut through the Ebal, Ephraim, and Gerizim Mountains, and it controlled the roads to the north and the west. Boasting a beautiful location and advanced culture, Shechem was never dull. Daily, the merchants and migrants who traveled from the East to Egypt passed through the city in exotic dress.
\nDinah was bored of being alone. She was restless. She longed for something happier, brighter than the tents of her father. She wanted to meet other girls and had heard that the girls of Shechem offered a colorful picture because of their beautiful Eastern clothes. Desiring to see these costumes for herself, she left the parental tent and began walking toward Shechem.
\nWhy did no one prevent Dinah from leaving? Why did no one warn her? Hadn\u2019t her mother or father pointed out the possible dangers threatening her? In the past, Great-grandmother Sarah and Grandmother Rebekah had found themselves in great trouble when they had drawn much attention from kings of the lands they visited. Only an intervention by God and the presence of their husbands had kept them from disaster. But Dinah was alone, young, and inexperienced. In this culture, daughters were under the strict supervision of their parents. Her father should have been a protection over her life, but he was absent from her story until after she wandered into danger. Was his lack of engagement and wisdom in guiding his daughter a possible sign of his cooled relationship with God?
\nA Chain Reaction of Misery<\/strong>
\nSo she arrived at Shechem. How many, if any, of the local beauties she saw is unknown. But she did end up in the bedroom of the prince of the land. Prince Shechem, the son of Hamor, saw her, took her, and raped her.
\nHer little trip, launched in curiosity and impulse, set off a chain reaction of misery that ended with crime and mourning. The comfortable relationship that Jacob and his family had with the heathen land unleashed a sorrow so great that it could not be reversed after it was set in motion.
\nWhile Dinah remained in the royal palace with Shechem, Jacob and his sons heard what had happened. King Hamor, Shechem\u2019s father, anticipated Jacob\u2019s response and visited him. \u201cMy son has his heart set on your daughter,\u201d he said. \u201cPlease give her to him as his wife.\u201d
\nThen Shechem himself arrived. He had horribly violated Dinah, and perhaps he and his father had come to the conclusion that she should become his wife to keep peace with Jacob and his family. Regardless, he asked Jacob to give Dinah to him to legitimize his actions. \u201cLet me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask,\u201d he told Jacob. \u201cMake the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I\u2019ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.\u201d It was clear that Shechem felt very attached to Dinah. He loved her and talked tenderly to her. And she? Scripture does not give her a voice. Was she terrified? Had she, knowing that the violation meant no other man would marry her, pushed away thoughts of the rape and clung to the hope for a marriage to Shechem?
\nIn order to please Dinah\u2019s family as much as possible, Hamor suggested that Jacob and his tribe make a covenant with the people of Shechem so that they could intermarry and do business together. But Simeon and Levi, Dinah\u2019s brothers, were furious. Under their existing law, the loss of a girl\u2019s virginity was considered a flagrant crime. They were too shocked and angry to overlook the insult, for it was an outrage against all of them. \u201cYou can\u2019t do such a thing!\u201d they raged.
\nTheir fury was justified, but the way they took their revenge was not. Just as Jacob\u2019s lack of relational closeness to God had left Dinah open to being preyed upon, his lack of guiding wisdom in the lives of his sons meant they turned to sinful reasoning and action rather than the ways of God. Rather than acting honestly, Simeon and Levi moved hypocritically. Pretending to agree with King Hamor\u2019s proposal to merge the two groups of people, they set forth the condition that every male inhabitant of Shechem would have to undergo circumcision, the ritual that was obligatory for the Hebrew men. Their request revealed how superficially the two brothers thought about religion. They mistook its true meaning for its outward sign. And, what was far worse, they used religion to cover up premeditated murder.
\nAfter Hamor and Shechem convinced their subjects of the reasonableness of the Hebrews\u2019 request, the ceremony took place. Simeon and Levi then entered the city on the third day armed with swords. While the entire male population was in pain, unable to move because of their wounds, Simeon and Levi killed every man in the city. With their swords, they beheaded or stabbed man after man. They didn\u2019t hesitate even to slaughter Hamor and Shechem, men with whom they had pretended to discuss the covenant only a few days before. What began with lack of relationship with God ended up becoming murder.
\nSimeon and Levi\u2019s gruesome murder of unsuspecting people wasn\u2019t even enough to cool their hatred. They also plundered the city, seizing all the flocks and herds and capturing the women and children as their prey.
\nThe sons of Jacob had met one heinous crime with another. Simeon and Levi had become murderers, abhorred by the world. They had cast a blame upon themselves that could never be removed. Countless men died because of their cruelty; wives and children became widows and modeless orphans who could call sorrow their only personal possession.
\n\u201cYou have made me stink among all the people of this land,\u201d Jacob lamented to Simeon and Levi. \u201cWe are so few that they will come and crush us, and we will all be killed.\u201d
\nThe Real Impact<\/strong>
\nIt was in fact God\u2019s name\u2014so closely connected with Jacob\u2019s name and the names of His people\u2014that really suffered. Jacob neglected to mention this. Was it possible that he was more concerned with his own name, the talk that went on behind his back, than with the honor of God? Again we see signs that the weakness and distance from God on the part of the father led to the misfortune of his daughter and the sin of his sons.
\nJacob\u2019s attitude toward his family was not impressive either. He rebuked Simeon and Levi for the way they had brought disgrace to him, but he did not mention their sin against God and their fellow humans. The Bible doesn\u2019t even mention Jacob\u2019s fatherly concern and authority concerning Dinah. She didn\u2019t receive the attention from him that she needed before, during, or after this painful situation. Jacob was thinking only about himself.
\n\"Packaging\"<\/a>
\nWhether or not Dinah\u2019s mother understood and comforted her is not recorded. Yet who else but Leah\u2014who had suffered so much herself\u2014could have been more understanding of her daughter\u2019s pain? The scars from Dinah\u2019s emotional wounds may never have healed completely.
\nAfter these sad events, on God\u2019s command Jacob moved his family away from the site of the crime to Bethel. There Jacob once again became the man he ought to have been earlier, a father who led his family in the service of God. But Dinah\u2019s story remains a tragic reminder that distance from God can lead to tragedy not only in our own lives but in the lives of those we love.
\nDiscussion Starters<\/u><\/p>\n

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  1. Have you ever felt displaced? All of us occasionally feel lonely or uprooted. What was your petition to God during that time? In what ways did He answer?<\/li>\n
  2. Have you ever made an imprudent decision out of boredom or restlessness? What was the result?<\/li>\n
  3. What protection has God built in the community around you? Who in your life provides the wisdom to hem you in from disaster?<\/li>\n
  4. Have you ever used religion as an excuse or cover for personal decisions? How did that impact your relationship with God? Others?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    You\u2019ve been reading an excerpt from Learners: Lessons from Women of Striving and Grace<\/em>,<\/a> part of the HER NAME IS WOMAN BIBLE STUDY, by Gien Karssen. In the study, Karssen explores the stories of Dinah, Leah, Sarah, and nine other women of the Bible. Wherever God led them, they walked through periods of growth and event trials, and they also experienced His faithfulness and love. Available from navpress.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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