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Place in the Bible - CITY

Shechem

· CITY
Mentions
45
Chapters
20
Books
10

The valley city where Abraham received God's first promise of the land, where Jacob's family settled briefly and experienced conflict, and where Joshua gathered Israel for a covenant renewal. Shechem later becomes the religious center of the northern kingdom. The city's history braids together patriarchal promise, tribal covenant, and the fractures of later division.

Hear its story sung

"Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,"
Judges 9

Every chapter

In canonical order across 10 books

Genesis
12
v. 6
33
v. 18
35
v. 4
37
v. 12
Joshua
17
v. 7
20
v. 7
21
v. 21
24
v. 1
Judges
8
v. 31
9
v. 1
21
v. 19
1 Kings
12
v. 1
1 Chronicles
6
v. 67
7
v. 28
2 Chronicles
10
v. 1
Psalms
60
v. 6
108
v. 7
Jeremiah
41
v. 5
Hosea
6
v. 9
Acts
7
v. 16

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