The Life of Jacob (20): The Stench at Shechem (Genesis 34:5-31) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Request of Shechem
II. The Proposal of Jacob's Sons
III. The Slaughter of the Shechemites
O. Palmer Robertson: “The fact that Shechem’s father appears at Jacob’s doorstep with hat in hand indicates that Dinah’s brothers were correct in their evaluation of the situation. Dinah their little sister had been raped and now was being held away from home by a burly foreigner. All during the polite negotiations that followed, this raw fact could not be forgotten. Whether willingly or by force, little Dinah was being detained by the heathen Canaanites. She was being held captive after having been violated” (The Genesis of Sex, p. 111).