Shechemites in the Bible

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“O my soul, do not come into their secret council;
Let not my glory (honor) be united with their assembly [for I knew nothing of their plot];
Because in their anger they killed men [an honored man, Shechem, and the Shechemites],
And in their self-will they lamed oxen.

And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:

Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ran from him. Many Shechemites fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.

The next day the Shechemites came out to the field. When Abimelech heard about it,

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And they gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and unstable fellows who followed him.


And all who went out of the gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and to Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.


And Abimelech was ruler over Israel three years.


(for my father fought for you, and ventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian, and ye have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem because he is your brother),


and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;


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