Thematic Bible: Or shechem Sychar


Thematic Bible



So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Verse ConceptsHills

To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Verse ConceptsTownPeople Giving Other Thingshumor

Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God. Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersRenewal, Of People Of GodAssembling Israel

Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. Verse ConceptsCoronationsMaking Kings

Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Verse ConceptsAbrahamTravelOakswitches

As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph. Verse ConceptsExhumationsBonesLarge Denominations

And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city. Verse ConceptsBoldness Examples OfAltars, Built ByCamp, Of Israel

Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem. Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept Stock

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