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.
19. to do the thing ] This verse describes Shechem’s eagerness to fulfil some condition required by Jacob. We cannot say for certain, whether this personal requirement was the same as that contained above, i.e. the obligation of circumcision ( Gen 34:15-17).
honoured above all ] These words must have had some reference to the terms, presumably of a humiliating nature, to which he had consented. He was the most distinguished personage in the city. If he was willing, no one else in the community need object.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And the young man deferred not to do the thing,…. To be circumcised himself, and to get all the males of the city circumcised; he delayed not a moment, but made all the haste he could to get it accomplished:
because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter; he really loved her, and delighted in her person and company: it was not the effect of a brutish lust, but a true affection he bore to her, that he desired her in marriage:
and he [was] more honourable than all the house of his father; for though he had done a base thing in defiling Jacob’s daughter, yet in this he was honourable, that he sought to marry her, and to do any thing that was in his power to recompence the injury; and he was honourable in keeping covenant and compact with men; and was honest, upright, and sincere, to fulfil the condition imposed on him, and he had agreed to, as well as he was in greater esteem among the citizens than any of his father’s house, which made it the more easy to him to get their consent to be circumcised; they having a very high and honourable opinion of him, and ready to oblige him in anything they could.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
19. He was more honourable That is, Shechem was the most honourable and distinguished person of the royal house of Hamor the Hivite .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Gen 41:40 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 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.
Ver. 19. And the young man deferred not, &c. ] Heb., Neque distulit puer; The lad deferred not. He is called a lad or a child, that is, a fool; because he was carried, not by right reason, but blind affection, “walking in the ways of his heart and sight of his eyes”. Ecc 11:9 And the word a used to signify “youth,” Ecc 11:10 signifieth darkness; to note, that youth is the dark age, hot, and headlong, indeliberate and slippery, such as had need to “cleanse their ways, by cleaving to the Word,” saith David; Psa 119:9 where the word for “cleansing,” properly signifies the cleansing of glass, which, as it is slick and slippery, so, though it be very clean, yet it will gather filth, even in the sunbeams, and of itself: which noteth the great corruption of this age.
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Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
because: Gen 29:20, Son 8:6, Isa 62:4
honourable: Gen 41:20, Num 22:15, 1Sa 22:14, 2Ki 5:1, 1Ch 4:9, Isa 3:3-5, Isa 5:13, Isa 23:8, Isa 23:9, Act 13:50, Act 17:12
Reciprocal: Est 2:14 – delighted Mar 10:21 – loved