Between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim · Today: Tell Balata, near Nablus
Shechem in the Bible
Shechem is Abraham's first stop in Canaan and the place where Joshua gathers Israel to renew the covenant. The northern tribes reject Rehoboam here, and Jacob's well nearby is where Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman.
Archaeology
Tell Balata preserves a massive Middle Bronze fortress temple and city gate, matching the scale of the 'house of Baal-berith' mentioned in Judges.
Verses mentioning Shechem
66 occurrences across 56 verses in the King James Version.
- 1 Chronicles 7:28
And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof: towns: Heb. daughters unto Gaza: or, Adassa
Read in context - 2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
Read in context - Psalms 60:6
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Read in context - Psalms 108:7
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Read in context - Jeremiah 41:5
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Read in context - Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. by: Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem lewdness: or, enormity
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