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.

Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

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.

Verse ConceptsWounds

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

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Thematic Bible



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


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


Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.


for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian, and you have risen up against my father's house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative--


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


References

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.