Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)
1 Kings 12:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition REHOBOAM WENT to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. American Standard Version (1901) And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. Common English Bible Rehoboam went to Shechem where all Israel had come to make him king. Catholic Public Domain Version Then Rehoboam went to Shechem. For in that place, all of Israel had gathered to appoint him as king. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king. |
Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)
Solomon rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam became king in his place.
Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilised the house of Judah and Benjamin #– #one hundred and eighty thousand fit young soldiers #– #to fight against Israel to restore the reign to Rehoboam.
eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria who had shaved their beards, torn their clothes, and gashed themselves, and who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the Lord.
were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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.
Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and summoned Israel’s elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.
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 a hundred pieces of silver. , It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem and spoke to his uncles and to his mother’s whole clan, saying,
Then all the citizens of Shechem and of Beth-millo gathered together and proceeded to make Abimelech king at the oak of the pillar in Shechem.