And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
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Interpretation
The Shechemites submitted to the sacred rite, only to serve a turn, to please their prince, and to enrich themselves, and it was just with God to bring punishment upon them. As nothing secures us better than true religion, so nothing exposes us more than religion only pretended to.
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This thought runs through Genesis 34:28-31.