Place · Samaria · modern Nablus, West Bank
Shechem
Shechem is an ancient city in Samaria, significant as a center of early Israelite worship and the site of Joshua's covenant renewal (Joshua 24).
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Where Shechem appears
6 passages across 4 books.
Events here
- Joshua's Farewell c. 1380 BC — Josh 24:1
Passages set in Shechem
- 1Kgs 12:1 — And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
- Gen 12:6 — And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
- Gen 33:18 — And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
- Gen 34:2 — And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
- Josh 24:1 — And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before Go
- Judg 9:1 — And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,