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sermonette: Who Is To Blame?

The Rape of Dinah
Mike Ford
Given 02-Jun-12; Sermon #1105s; 19 minutes

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One perspective blames Jacob's daughter Dinah for her own rape because she sought the world. Because she was the daughter of Leah, she probably would not have been a favorite of Jacob's. Most commentators place her around the age of 13 when this hapless event occurred. Dinah left the security of the camp to see what the daughters of the Hivites were up to. Shechem, the Prince of Shechem, lusting after Dinah, violated her. Even though revisionist interpreters attempt to characterize this event as consensual sex, the preponderance of evidence points to a rape. She was taken against her will and violated. Shechem, in his request for Dinah, behaves as a young man who has always gotten his way. This crime had not only been a violation against Dinah, but against the entirety of the family of Israel. Simeon and Levi retaliated, killing the males of the entire town. Jacob bears a significant portion of the responsibility by putting roots down in Shechem, endangering his daughter, allowing pagan observances to occur within his house, rather than moving on to Bethel as God had instructed him. Dinah, although she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, was not solely to blame. No one was truly innocent in this hapless event.





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