“And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.”
When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home. Jacob's silence — he does nothing until his sons return — is the passivity that will cede moral leadership of the family's response to his sons. 2 Samuel 13:21 records David's similar inaction when Amnon violated Tamar. The application: the failure of the father to respond to the violation of his daughter creates the vacuum into which the sons' violent response will rush.
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