Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Bible References

The parcel

Genesis 33:19
And he bought a piece of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
Genesis 48:22
And I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a piece of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. And it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph.