Jacob's lot

"I am God of Abraham and Isaac, I will always be by your side and protect you. I will give you many children, like the grains of sand on a beach. The land that you are lying on now will belong to you and your children."
    
 "Jacob's ladder," heard of it. Now I know the reference. That was his vision when he was told he was going to have lots of kids.



Twelve in all, eleven boys and one girl Dinah. The crew is getting too big for the area and has to move. A rebellious group are they. Not one I would invite to Casa de Miller anytime soon, cause they would rob me blind and have me thanking them for doing so, because they were the Lord's "favored people"

    The first place they settled, their daughter Dinah was violated by Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, ruler of the area, who then was so enthalled with her he wanted her hand in marriage. Sounds like she may have been a willing partner. We are only getting one side of the story here, and so far I'm not too impressed with the word of this crew.

       The brothers from hell wanted no part of that. They were pissed that their sister had sex with Shechem.The offer was made for her hand and Hamor offered them what ever price they wanted. Hamor even welcomed them into his land and wanted peace, looking forward to the day when the children of Jacob mingled and went forth to be fruitful with his community.

       Because they thought Dinah was violated, they told Hamor to have all the men folk circumcised. It would be a disgrace for their women to mingle with uncircumcised males. Shechem and Hamor agreed and also convinced the town folk the same. 

      Told the town folk this was a win-win situation, we can both prosper. "These were nice people".

      Guess what? After the weenies were sliced and the men were in pain, two of the chosen few, Simeon and Levi slaughtered every male in town, then the others took the women and their possessions as booty. 

     When Jacob found out what had happened he was like W.T.F. now we have to get out of here because we are few in numbers and when the other area towns find out about this we're dead-meat. Told his lot to get rid of the loot and women and change their clothes. Cleans yourselves. 

        I love the attitude of these two guys. "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute" ...WHAT! You slaughter a village for one man's actions and have no remorse?  

      God says to Jacob, run back to where you came from I'll cover your ass so no one follows you. And he does? Go make an altar to me and all will basically be forgiven. Jacob makes the altar where he had his vision of "Jacob's ladder". where the Lord first spoke with him.  

     His last kid, Benjamin, is born on the way and his wife Rachel dies after childbirth. Supposedly there is still the pillar which marks Rachel's grave standing. 

    Insult to injury, Reuben, Jacob's oldest, sneaks into daddy's concubines  tent one night and slips her the Hebrew national.Why is this important? I don't know, it is in the book. Perhaps it will be relevant later.