Genesis 12:6

Good News Translation

Abram traveled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.)

Cross References

Genesis 10:15

Canaan's sons—Sidon, the oldest, and Heth—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.

Genesis 13:7

So quarrels broke out between the men who took care of Abram's animals and those who took care of Lot's animals. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.)

Genesis 33:18

On his return from Mesopotamia Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan and set up his camp in a field near the city.

Genesis 34:2

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

Genesis 34:30

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have gotten me into trouble; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I do not have many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed.”

Genesis 35:4

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.

1 Kings 12:1

Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the people of northern Israel had gathered to make him king.

1 Kings 12:25

King Jeroboam of Israel fortified the town of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there for a while. Then he left and fortified the town of Penuel.

Psalm 60:6

From his sanctuary God has said, “In triumph I will divide Shechem and distribute Sukkoth Valley to my people.

Hosea 6:9

The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately!

John 4:5

In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Acts 7:16

Their bodies were taken to Shechem, where they were buried in the grave which Abraham had bought from the clan of Hamor for a sum of money.

Deuteronomy 11:30

These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the territory of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley. They are toward the west, not far from the sacred trees of Moreh near the town of Gilgal.)

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he lived 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.

Joshua 20:7

So, on the west side of the Jordan they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 24:32

The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. This land was inherited by Joseph's descendants.

Judges 7:1

One day Gideon and all his men got up early and camped beside Harod Spring. The Midianite camp was in the valley to the north of them by Moreh Hill.

Judges 9:1

Gideon's son Abimelech went to the town of Shechem, where all his mother's relatives lived, and told them