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,

Thematic Bible



And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Ba'al-be'rith with which Abim'elech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.


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


Abim'elech ruled over Israel three years.


for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Mid'ian; and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abim'elech, the son of his maidservant, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your kinsman--


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


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