by Will | May 13, 2025 | Scripture Meditations
Read with Me Genesis 34:18-24 (HCSB) Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house. So Hamor and his son Shechem...
by Will | May 12, 2025 | Scripture Meditations
Read with Me Genesis 34:13-17 (HCSB) But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah. “We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us. We will...
by Will | May 8, 2025 | Scripture Meditations
Read with Me Genesis 34:1-12 (HCSB) Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area. When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her. He became infatuated with Dinah,...
by Will | May 7, 2025 | Scripture Meditations
Read with Me Genesis 33:8-20 (HCSB) So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession I met?” “To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered. “I have enough, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what you have.” But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor...
by Will | Apr 29, 2025 | Scripture Meditations
Read with Me Genesis 33:1-7 (HCSB) Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female slaves. He put the female slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and...
by Will | Apr 24, 2025 | Scripture Meditations
Read with Me Genesis 32:22-32 (HCSB) During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. Jacob was left alone, and...