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

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They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men to join him.


All the citizens of the city agreed with what Hamor and Shechem proposed. Then all the males were circumcised.


When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,


My father fought for you. He risked his life to deliver you from the Midianites. Today you turned against my father's family. You killed his sons, seventy men on a single stone. And this because Abimelech, his son by his servant woman, is your relative, you have made him king of Shechem.


the family of Asriel, the family of Shechem,


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