# 319 Let’s Sweep It Under the Rug

The Book of Genesis

Day 319

Ge 34:8 But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.  9 "And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves.  10 "So you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you. Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions for yourselves in it."  11 Then Shechem said to her father and her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.

 Hamor, perhaps sensing the anger of Jacob’s sons at his son for the rape of their sister, pleads on behalf of his son. “Please give her to him as a wife, my son longs for her.” Umm, no Hamor, he didn’t LONG for her he LUSTED after her and raped her!  And the feeling certainly isn’t mutual, Dinah had been taken against her will!

But there is more to Hamor’s pleading, he says, “while we’re at it, let’s just mix these two people groups together.” You marry our daughters, and we’ll marry yours. You can dwell with us, trade with us, and acquire possessions for yourselves.”

Oh my, the temptation! What happens if Jacob and his sons accept this offer? What happens to the rape of Dinah? It is swept under the rug of boys will be boys compromise. It is justified in the name of peace and prosperity, and a standard is set, or perhaps we should say a standard is lowered for the treatment of all the Dinah’s in the land.

This is the way it is with sin. When it is committed, the spirit of compromise or self-justification often follows. Let’s not confess it as sin. Let’s not repent of it, let’s just let it slide and enter into a place where such activity is tolerated. Friends, that’s the wrong kingdom and you know it! You know which kingdom tolerates sin, and you and I should have no part in it. The end result of such compromise is death!

1Th 5:3 says, “For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.”

Have you entered into an agreement with sin? Is it adultery? Fornication? Drunkenness? Homosexuality? Idolatry? Thievery? Covetousness? Such compromisers will not inherit the kingdom of God. Read 1 Cor 6:9,10. (Don’t forget the remedy found in 1 Cor 6:11)  Repent of your sin and return to the purity of Dinah before she went out to see the daughters of the land!