Gen 34:12, Deu 22:29, 1Sa 18:25 | TSK | STEP | Ask me.On the practice of purchasing wives, De La Roque says, "Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as when they have many daughters. They form part of the riches of the house. Accordingly, when a young man would treat with a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to him, 'Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six camels, or for a dozen cows?' according to the rank of her family, and the circumstances of him who desires to marry her." dowry.

Genesis 34:12

Ask me.On the practice of purchasing wives, De La Roque says, "Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as when they have many daughters. They form part of the riches of the house. Accordingly, when a young man would treat with a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to him, 'Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six camels, or for a dozen cows?' according to the rank of her family, and the circumstances of him who desires to marry her."

dowry.

24:53; 29:18; 31:41; Ex 22:16,17; De 22:28,29; 1Sa 18:25-27

2Sa 3:14; Ho 3:2; Mt 14:17

Deuteronomy 22:29

because he hath humbled.

19,24; 21:14

1 Samuel 18:25

dowry.

Ge 29:18; 34:12; Ex 22:16,17

but an hundred.That is, Thou shalt slay one hundred Philistines, and thou shalt produce their foreskins as a proof, not only that thou hast killed one hundred men, but that these are of the uncircumcised Philistines.

foreskins.

17:26,36; Ge 17:11-14; Jos 5:3

to be avenged.

14:24

thought.

17; 2Sa 17:8-11