Read Genesis 34:1-19
Verse 1-19 -
Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as
under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the
flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever
laying snares for them, expose them to great danger. They are their
own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among
strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not
hinder their children from needlessly exposing themselves to danger.
Indulged children, like Dinah, often become a grief and shame to
their families. Her pretence was, to see the daughters of the land,
to see how they dressed, and how they danced, and what was
fashionable among them; she went to see, yet that was not all, she
went to be seen too. She went to get acquaintance with the
Canaanites, and to learn their ways. See what came of Dinah's
gadding. The beginning of sin is as the letting forth of water. How
great a matter does a little fire kindle! We should carefully avoid
all occasions of sin and approaches to it.
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