Genesis 34:8

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Hamor conferred with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem craves your daughter [and sister]. I beg of you give her to him to be his wife.

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

But his soul longed for and clung to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke comfortingly to her young heart's wishes.

Genesis 34:7

When Jacob's sons heard it, they came from the field; and they were distressed and grieved and very angry, for [Shechem] had done a vile thing to Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter, which ought not to be done.

Genesis 34:9

And make marriages with us and give your daughters to us and take our daughters to you.

1 Kings 11:2

They were of the very nations of whom the Lord said to the Israelites, You shall not mingle with them, neither shall they mingle with you, for surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods. Yet Solomon clung to these in love. [Deut. 17:17.]

Job 7:2

As a servant earnestly longs for the shade and the evening shadows, and as a hireling who looks for the reward of his work,

Psalm 119:20

My heart is breaking with the longing that it has for Your ordinances and judgments at all times.

Psalm 63:1

O GOD, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is.

Psalm 84:2

My soul yearns, yes, even pines and is homesick for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out and sing for joy to the living God.

Jeremiah 22:27

But to the land to which they will yearn to return, there they will not return.