Thematic Bible: Or shechem Sychar


Thematic Bible



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

The Israelites gave them:

Shechem, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, 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 property that Jacob had given his son Joseph. Verse ConceptsTownPeople Giving Other Thingshumor

Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and summoned Israel’s elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God. Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersRenewal, Of People Of GodAssembling Israel

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

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

Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs. It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants. Verse ConceptsExhumationsBonesLarge Denominations

After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city. Verse ConceptsBoldness Examples OfAltars, Built ByCamp, Of Israel

His brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem. Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept Stock

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