Genesis 34:2
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Cross-references
Genesis 6:2 describes the sons of God 'seeing' and taking human women, mirroring Shechem's 'seeing' and taking Dinah in a pattern of destructive desire.
Genesis 10:17 lists the Hivite as a Canaanite clan, directly identifying Shechem's ethnic and regional background.
Genesis 33:19 records Jacob buying land from Hamor, Shechem's father—the same local ruler and location as in this verse.
In Genesis 39:7, Joseph faces a similar test of desire after Potiphar's wife 'looked' at him, but he resists—highlighting the contrast between sin and righteousness.
In Genesis 35:2, Jacob orders foreign gods removed — a purification act in direct response to the corrupting Shechem crisis.
In Genesis 27:46, Rebekah fears Canaanite entanglement for Jacob — Dinah's violation by a local Hivite illustrates exactly that danger.
In Genesis 20:2, Abimelech takes Sarah because of her beauty, a parallel danger where a woman's beauty leads to her being seized by a ruler.
In Judges 19:25, the concubine is gang-raped by the mob — a vivid parallel of sexual violation that closely echoes Dinah's assault.
In 2 Samuel 11:2, David 'saw' Bathsheba from the roof, leading to adultery and murder—a powerful king's misuse of desire parallel to Shechem's.
Job 31:1 shows the righteous response: making 'a covenant with my eyes' to avoid looking with lust, directly contrasting Shechem's unchecked gaze.
Matthew 5:28 internalizes the sin, stating that lustful looking is adultery in the heart—the inner sin Shechem acted upon with Dinah.
In 2 Samuel 13:12, Amnon forces Tamar just as Shechem violated Dinah — both men taking women by force, echoing the same pattern.
In Deuteronomy 22:29, the law requires a man who violates an unbetrothed virgin to pay bride-price and marry her — the legal remedy for exactly this kind of act.
In Exodus 22:16, seducing an unbetrothed virgin requires paying bride-price — the legal framework Shechem later tries to follow.
In Judges 14:1, Samson 'saw' a woman and desired her, initiating a different outcome (marriage) but showing the same pattern of sight leading to desire.
In Judges 19:24, a father offers his daughter to a violent mob — another narrative of sexual violence against women, echoing Dinah's vulnerability.