Jacob’s Inferno

Let us muse today from Genesis 34:1-2,24-26,&35:22 and ‘Pride’s Inferno’ because Jacob has failed to head for home. In 34:1-2 we find his daughter, Dinah, is raped by a Hivite whom they were dwelling among. In verses 24-26 her brother kills him and his family unmercifully through a deceptive plan. During these days of pride Jacob’s son Reuben has an affair with his stepmother, one of his Dad’s wives. Disobedience to God’s command, ‘to go’, has lifted the hedge of Jacob’s protection and the enemy has come in like a flood creating an Inferno for Jacob to deal with. You may say, Jacob’s failure to go home seems like a minor infraction. Apparently not to God with the price that is paid in consequences.