Kli Yakar on Genesis Chapter 34
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וַיָּבֹאוּ עַל הָעִיר בֶּטַח. פֵּרֵשׁ רַשִׁ״י שֶׁהָיוּ בְּטוּחִים עַל כֹּחוֹ שֶׁל זָקֵן, וְיֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים כִּי זָקֵן זֶה הַיְינוּ אַבְרָהָם זְקֵנָם שֶׁהִתְפַּלֵּל עַל בְּנֵי יַעֲקֹב כְּשֶׁיָּבֹאוּ לִשְׁכֶם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁפֵּרֵשׁ רַשִׁ״י פָּרָשַׁת לֶךְ לְךָ עַל ״וַיַּעֲבֹר אַבְרָם בָּאָרֶץ עַד מְקוֹם שְׁכֶם״ (בראשית יב, ו). וְיִתָּכֵן לְפָרֵשׁ ״בֶּטַח״ שֶׁהָיוּ בְּטוּחִים שֶׁלֹּא יְבַקְשׁוּ הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַפְּרִזִּי לַעֲשׂוֹת נְקָמָה בַּעֲבוּרָם, כִּי יֹאמְרוּ: מֵאַחַר שֶׁנִּכְנְסוּ בְּדַת הַנִּמּוֹלִים, אֵינָם מִשֶּׁלָּנוּ, וְיִתְיָאֲשׁוּ מֵהֶם.
And they came upon the city with confidence [betach]. Rashi explains that they were confident in the strength of the Elder. Some say that this Elder refers to Abraham their grandfather, who had prayed for Jacob’s children when they would come to Shechem, as Rashi explains in Parashat Lech Lecha regarding the verse And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem (Genesis 12:6). It can also be interpreted that [the word] betach [means] they were confident that the Canaanites and Perizzites would not seek to take revenge on their behalf [i.e., on behalf of the people of Shechem], because they would say: “Since they [the people of Shechem] entered into the religion of the circumcised, they are not of our people,” and thus they would give up on them.