Quotes About Shechem

There are no traces of the Hittites at Shechem or on the eastern side of the Jordan

At Babel, men built a tower to make a name for themselves. At Shechem, Abraham did not build anything to make himself a name; he built an altar for calling on the name of the Lord (12:8).

The cult of Yahweh and the symbol, the asherah, appear from later data to be general features of both northern and southern religion. The northern evidence for El seems clear from his cult in Shechem. Jerusalem probably represents another cultic site where the royal cult of Yahweh assumed the indigenous traditions of El. The monarchic solar imagery for Yahweh seems to be strictly a southern development, a special feature of the royal Judean cult.

Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechemís father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

Meanwhile, Shechemís father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:

Some time later, Josephís brothers had gone to pasture their fatherís flocks near Shechem.

Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,

Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechemís father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Josephís descendants.

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

God sent a spirit of animosity between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem and caused them to treat Abimelech deceitfully,

Abimelech stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.

The next day the people of Shechem went out into the fields, and this was reported to Abimelech.

On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.

And when Abimelech was told that all the leaders in the tower of Shechem were gathered there,

And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.