Joshua 21:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 33:19

And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for one hundred pieces of money the plot of land on which he had pitched his tent.

2 Samuel 5:25

David did just as the Lord had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba all the way to Gezer.

1 Kings 12:1

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

1 Chronicles 6:67

They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

Joshua 10:33

Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people, leaving him no survivors.

Joshua 16:10

They did not, however, drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived within Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

Joshua 20:7

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.

Joshua 21:22

Kibzaim with its pasturelands, and Beth-horon with its pasturelands—four towns.

Judges 17:1

There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

Judges 9:1

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s kinsfolk and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,