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Selected Verse: Genesis 34:20 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 34:20 Strong Concordance And Hamor [02544] and Shechem [07927] his son [01121] came [0935] unto the gate [08179] of their city [05892], and communed [01696] with the men [0582] of their city [05892], saying [0559],
  King James And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Hamor and Shechem . . . came unto the gate of their city--That was the place where every public communication was made; and in the ready obsequious submission of the people to this measure we see an evidence either of the extraordinary affection for the governing family, or of the abject despotism of the East, where the will of a chief is an absolute command.
 
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