Genesis 12:6

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They arrived in Canaan, and Abram traveled through the land to the oak tree belonging to Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Cross References

Hebrews 11:9

Faith led Abraham to live as a foreigner in the country that God had promised him. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who received the same promise from God.

Deuteronomy 11:30

(These mountains are on the west side of the Jordan, beyond the road that goes west, in the region of the Canaanites who live on the plains facing Gilgal, next to the oak trees of Moreh.)

Genesis 35:4

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had in their possession as well as the earrings that they had on. Jacob buried these things under the oak tree near Shechem.

Judges 7:1

Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the troops with him got up early and camped above En Harod. Midian’s camp was north of him at the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Genesis 13:7

Quarrels broke out between Abram’s herders and Lot’s herders. (Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in that area.)

Acts 7:16

They were taken to Shechem for burial in the tomb that Abraham purchased in Shechem from Hamor’s sons.

John 4:5

He arrived at a city in Samaria called Sychar. Sychar was near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

1 Kings 12:1

Rehoboam went to Shechem because all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

Judges 9:1

Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal [Gideon], went to Shechem to see the uncles on his mother’s side of the family. He spoke to them and his mother’s whole family.

Joshua 24:32

Joseph’s bones, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, were buried at Shechem. They were placed in the plot of ground Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for 100 pieces of silver. The plot was inherited by Joseph’s descendants.

Joshua 20:7

Kedesh in Galilee in the mountains of Naphtali, Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (now called Hebron) in the mountains of Judah were chosen as cities of refuge.

Genesis 34:2

When Shechem, son of the local ruler Hamor the Hivite, saw her, he took her and raped her.

Genesis 33:18

So having come from Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in Canaan. He camped within sight of the city.

Genesis 10:15

Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,

1 Kings 12:25

Jeroboam rebuilt Shechem in the hills of Ephraim and lived there. Then he left that place and built Penuel.

Psalm 60:6

God has promised the following through his holiness: “I will triumph! I will divide Shechem. I will measure the valley of Succoth.

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused me a lot of trouble! You’ve made the people living in the area, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, hate me. There are only a few of us. If they join forces against me and attack me, my family and I will be wiped out.”

Hosea 6:9

The priests are like gangs of robbers who lie in ambush for a person. They murder on the road to Shechem. Certainly, they have committed a crime.