Genesis 34:19
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
Genesis 34:19 in other translations
| BSB | The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. |
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| WEB | The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father. |
| ASV | And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father. |
| YLT | and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father. |
| DARBY | And the youth did not delay to do this, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honourable above all in the house of his father. |
| BBE | And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house. |
| Webster | And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honorable than all the house of his father. |
What does Genesis 34:19 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 34:1-19
Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snares for them, expose them to great danger. They are their own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not hinder their children…
Genesis 34:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 34:19
- Numbers 22:15
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
- Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
- Acts 17:12
Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
- Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
- Isaiah 62:4
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi–bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
- Genesis 29:20
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- Isaiah 23:8-9
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
- 2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
- Genesis 41:20
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
- Isaiah 3:3-5
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
- Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
- 1 Chronicles 4:9
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
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Context
- Genesis 34:18
And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
- Genesis 34:19
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
- Genesis 34:20
And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis 34:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y no dilató el mozo hacer aquello, porque la hija de Jacob le había agradado: y él era el más honrado de toda la casa de su padre. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le jeune homme ne différa point de faire la chose; car la fille de Jacob lui agréait beaucoup, et il était plus considéré que tous ceux de la maison de son père. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und der Jüngling zögerte nicht dies zu tun, denn er hatte Gefallen an der Tochter Jakobs. Und er war geehrt vor allen im Hause seines Vaters. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | nec distulit adolescens quin statim quod petebatur expleret: amabat enim puellam valde, et ipse erat inclytus in omni domo patris sui. |