Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons (Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Cross References
Genesis 34:26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
Treasury of Scripture
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 brothers, took each man his sword, and came on the city boldly, and slew all the males.
sore.
Joshua 5:6,8
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey…
Simeon.
Genesis 29:33,34
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon…
Genesis 49:5,7
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations…
Numbers 31:7,17
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males…
slew.
Genesis 49:6
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 selfwill they digged down a wall.
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
