29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
29 All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.
29 And then they took all the wives and children captive and ransacked their homes for anything valuable.
29 and all their wealth. All their little ones and their wives they took captive; and they plundered even all that was in the houses.
29 They looted all their wealth and plundered their houses. They also took all their little children and wives and led them away as captives.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 34:29
Commentary on Genesis 34:20-31
(Read Genesis 34:20-31)
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. But Simeon and Levi were most unrighteous. Those who act wickedly, under the pretext of religion, are the worst enemies of the truth, and harden the hearts of many to destruction. The crimes of others form no excuse for us. Alas! how one sin leads on to another, and, like flames of fire, spread desolation in every direction! Foolish pleasures lead to seduction; seduction produces wrath; wrath thirsts for revenge; the thirst of revenge has recourse to treachery; treachery issues in murder; and murder is followed by other lawless actions. Were we to trace the history of unlawful commerce between the sexes, we should find it, more than any other sin, ending in blood.