And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
The chain that led to Hamor's visit began when Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land, thereby venturing into association with the ungodly. Hamor came out to commune with Jacob after the lawless deed of his rash son Shechem brought shame and sorrow upon Jacob's daughter. His approach belongs within the events in which Simeon and Levi deceived the people of Shechem and then destroyed them in a cruel, revengeful act.
That revenge ended in murder and the ruin and slaughter of a whole city in retaliation for one man's deed, and though not unprovoked, it was treacherous cruelty and grievous sin carefully concealed from Jacob. The tidings of his sons' deceit and violence filled Jacob with horror and heart-sickness, making him fear he had become odious among the inhabitants of the land and would be gathered against and destroyed with his house, a grief and abhorrence he still expressed nearly fifty years later on his deathbed in Egypt. Seeking pleasure among those who do not fear God places a person on Satan's ground and invites temptation.
The chain that led to Hamor's visit began when Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land, thereby venturing into association with the ungodly. Hamor came out to commune with Jacob after the lawless deed of his rash son Shechem brought shame and sorrow upon Jacob's daughter. His approach belongs within the events in which Simeon and Levi deceived the people of Shechem and then destroyed them in a cruel, revengeful act.
That revenge ended in murder and the ruin and slaughter of a whole city in retaliation for one man's deed, and though not unprovoked, it was treacherous cruelty and grievous sin carefully concealed from Jacob. The tidings of his sons' deceit and violence filled Jacob with horror and heart-sickness, making him fear he had become odious among the inhabitants of the land and would be gathered against and destroyed with his house, a grief and abhorrence he still expressed nearly fifty years later on his deathbed in Egypt. Seeking pleasure among those who do not fear God places a person on Satan's ground and invites temptation.