Shechemites in the Bible

Exact Match


“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 shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech got the support of a number of uncontrolled and good-for-nothing persons.


Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.


So Abimelech was chief over Israel for three years.


(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian; And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)


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


References

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain