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Simeon and Levi killed Shechem and Hamor in revenge for the outrage committed against Dinah (Genesis 34:25-26)

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What was Hamor's request of Jacob's sons?

Hamor's son Shechem violated Jacob's daughter Dinah and soon wanted to marry her. Hamor asked this of Jacob's sons and to make an interesting but long story short, They found out that Shechem defiled their sister and killed both Hamor and Shechem with a sword.


What group of people was circumcised then killed?

The Hivites; specifically, those who lived in the city of Shechem and his father Hamor. See Genesis chapter 34.


Who did Hamor decend from?

Hamor is a figure from the Hebrew Bible, specifically mentioned in the Book of Genesis. He is identified as the father of Shechem, the prince of the city of Shechem. Hamor is a Hivite, which places him among the Canaanite peoples descended from Canaan, the son of Ham, one of Noah's sons.


Why did simeon and Levi kill all Hamors men?

Simeon and Levi killed all of Hamor's men in retaliation for the violation of their sister Dinah, who had been taken and defiled by Shechem, Hamor's son. After Shechem expressed a desire to marry Dinah and sought to negotiate with her family, Simeon and Levi deceitfully agreed to the marriage proposal on the condition that Shechem and his men undergo circumcision. Once the men were incapacitated from the procedure, Simeon and Levi attacked and killed them as an act of vengeance for their sister's honor.


Who defiled the sister of the sons of Jacob in the Old Testament?

Shechem, the son of Hamor. He was a Canaanite prince. Genesis ch.34.


Who is shechem in gen 34?

In Genesis 34, Shechem is the son of Hamor the Hivite and a prince of the city of Shechem. He becomes infatuated with Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, and he violates her. After this incident, Shechem seeks to marry Dinah and offers to pay a bride price, prompting a violent response from Dinah's brothers, who deceive him and the men of his city into circumcision before attacking them.


What is Shechem in the Bible?

A city in the land of Canaan:Genesis 12:6New King James Version (NKJV) 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites werethen in the land.Shechem was also a Hivite prince who violated Jacob's daughter Dinah. His sons killed Shechem and his father:Genesis 34:13New King James Version (NKJV) 13 But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.


Who bought the piece of land where Joseph bones were finally buried?

Josh:24:32: And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.


When was Har Hamor created?

Har Hamor was created in 1997.


What did the sons of Jacob do to the city of Shechem?

Jacob & his entire family had left his Uncle Laban and were heading back home to his Father Isaac in Mamre (Hebron). They stopped at Shechem, which was also the name for Hamor the Horite's son, who was more highly respected than anyone in his clan. Shechem "seized & lay with" Dinah, the daughter of Jacob & Leah. Shechem asked his father to "get me this girl for a wife", but what Shechem had done was an outrage in Israel. Jacob & sons agreed to let Shechem marry Dinah and also "intermarry with each others tribes" if ALL of the men of Shechem would be circumcised. They agreed. On the "third day of their pain", Dinah's brothers Levi & Simeon "advanced against the city w/o any trouble & massacred all the males & took their sister, Dinah. Then the rest of Jacob's sons "followed up the slaughter" and took whatever they wanted from the city, including weaalth, women, children, loot & flocks. Jacob was horrified. He told his family to "get rid of foreign gods, purify yourselves and put on fresh clothes...as we are going up to Bethel" where he would build an altar to God. As they left Shechem, a terror from God fell upon the towns around about, so that no one pursued them.


What has the author George Hamor Lee written?

George Hamor Lee has written: 'An introduction to experimental stress analysis' -- subject(s): Strains and stresses


What has the author Ralph Hamor written?

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