Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 37:12

12 And his brethren went to feed their fathers flock in Shechem .

In the parts adjoyning to Shechem, in the lands which he had purchased there, Gen. 33. 19. Let none think strange that he should send his sheep so far from him, both because that land was his own, and because his sheep being exceeding numerous, and he but a stranger in the land, was likely to be exposed to many such inconveniencies. Compare Gen. 30. 36. One may rather wonder that he durst venture his sons and his cattel there, where that barbarous massacre had been committed, chap. 34. 25. But those pastures being his own, and convenient for his use, he did commit himself and them to that same good Providence, which watched over him then and ever since, and still kept up that terrour which then he sent upon them. Besides Iacobs Sons and Servants made a considerable Company, and the men of Shechem being universally slain, others were not very forward to revenge their quarrel, where there was any hazard to themselves in such an enterprize.