Lexicon :: Strong's H7927 - šᵊḵem

Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.

When Shechem ​— ​son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the region’s chieftain ​— ​saw her, he took her and raped her.

“Get me this girl as a wife,” he told his father.

Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.

Hamor said to Jacob’s sons, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your[fn] daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor,[fn] and I’ll give you whatever you say.

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city.

All the men who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away.

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

His brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem.

The border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem. It then went southward toward the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

The Israelites gave them:

Shechem, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and summoned Israel’s elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.

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

Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.[fn] It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

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

Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem and spoke to his uncles and to his mother’s whole clan, saying,

Then all the citizens of Shechem and of Beth-millo gathered together and proceeded to make Abimelech king at the oak of the pillar in Shechem.

“and now you have attacked my father’s family today, killed his seventy sons on top of a large stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the citizens of Shechem ‘because he is your brother’ ​— ​

“But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”

God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the citizens of Shechem. They treated Abimelech deceitfully,

Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal, and isn’t Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?

So he secretly sent messengers to Abimelech, saying, “Beware! Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem and are turning the city against you.[fn]

So Abimelech and all the troops with him got up at night and waited in ambush for Shechem in four units.

So Gaal went out leading the citizens of Shechem and fought against Abimelech,

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

When all the citizens of the Tower of Shechem heard, they entered the inner chamber[fn] of the temple of El-berith.[fn]

Each of the troops also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire; about a thousand men and women died, including all the men of the Tower of Shechem.

God also brought back to the men of Shechem all their evil. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

They also said, “Look, there’s an annual festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

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

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

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

Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its surrounding 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 to Shechem to make him king.