SHECHEM

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• Genesis 12:6

  Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were in the land, then.

• Genesis 33:19

  He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

• Genesis 37:12

  His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

• Genesis 37:13

  Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 37:14

  He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

• Genesis 50:13

  for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

• Numbers 26:31

  and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

• Joshua 17:2

  So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida. These were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.

• Joshua 20:7

  They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

• Joshua 21:21

  They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,

• Joshua 24:1

  Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

• Joshua 24:2

  Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh says, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

• Joshua 24:3

  I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.

• Joshua 24:4

  I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

• Joshua 24:5

  “‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

• Joshua 24:6

  I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.

• Joshua 24:7

  When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.

• Joshua 24:8

  “‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.

• Joshua 24:9

  Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

• Joshua 24:10

  but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

• Joshua 24:11

  “‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

• Joshua 24:12

  I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

• Joshua 24:13

  I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’

• Joshua 24:14

  “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

• Joshua 24:15

  If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

• Joshua 24:16

  The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

• Joshua 24:17

  for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.

• Joshua 24:18

  Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”

• Joshua 24:19

  Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

• Joshua 24:20

  If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

• Joshua 24:21

  The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”

• Joshua 24:22

  Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

• Joshua 24:23

  “Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

• Joshua 24:24

  The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

• Joshua 24:25

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

• Joshua 24:26

  Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

• Joshua 24:27

  Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

• Joshua 24:28

  So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

• Joshua 24:30

  They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

• Joshua 24:31

  Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

• Joshua 24:32

  They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

• Judges 8:31

  His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

• Judges 9:28

  Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

• Judges 9:45

  Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people in it. He beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

• Judges 21:19

  They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”

• 1 Kings 12:1

  Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

• 1 Kings 12:25

  Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

• 1 Chronicles 7:19

  The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

• Jeremiah 41:5

  men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

• John 4:1

  Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

• John 4:2

  (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

• John 4:3

  he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.

• John 4:4

  He needed to pass through Samaria.

• John 4:5

  So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

• John 4:6

  Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

• John 4:7

  A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

• John 4:8

  For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

• John 4:9

  The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

• John 4:10

  Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

• John 4:11

  The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

• John 4:12

  Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?”

• John 4:13

  Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

• John 4:14

  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

• John 4:15

  The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

• John 4:16

  Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

• John 4:17

  The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

• John 4:18

  for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

• John 4:19

  The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

• John 4:20

  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

• John 4:21

  Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

• John 4:22

  You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

• John 4:23

  But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

• John 4:24

  God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

• John 4:25

  The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

• John 4:26

  Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

• John 4:27

  At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

• John 4:28

  So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

• John 4:29

  “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

• John 4:30

  They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

• John 4:31

  In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

• John 4:32

  But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

• John 4:33

  The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

• John 4:34

  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

• John 4:35

  Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

• John 4:36

  He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

• John 4:37

  For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

• John 4:38

  I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

• John 4:39

  From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

• John 4:40

  So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

• John 4:41

  Many more believed because of his word.

• John 4:42

  They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

• Acts 7:16

  and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.