And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
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And the Hivite,.... These dwelt in Hermon, a part of Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal Hermon unto the entering in of Hamath, Jos 11:3 to the east of the land of Canaan; hence they were sometimes called Kadmonites, or Easterlings, Gen 15:19 and are thought to have their name from dwelling in holes and caves like serpents; hence Cadmus the Phoenician, and his wife Hermonia, who seem to have their names from hence, are reported to be turned into serpents, they being Hivites, which this word signifies, as Bochart (i) observes.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
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But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
