Shechem

⁶⁷ They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,

⁶⁸ Jokmeam, Beth-horon,

Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.

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

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

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

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.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

¹² Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.

¹³ Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.

¹⁴ 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,

¹⁵ a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”