For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
Joshua 21:21 - New International Version (Anglicised) In the hill country of Ephraim they were given: Shechem (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Gezer, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To them were given, each with its pasturelands (suburbs), Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, as the city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer, American Standard Version (1901) And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs, Common English Bible They gave them: Shechem, the refuge city for a killer, and its pastures in the highlands of Ephraim; Gezer and its pastures; Catholic Public Domain Version from the tribe of Ephraim, Shechem, one of the cities of refuge, with its suburbs, on mount Ephraim, and Gezer, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one of the cities of refuge, with the suburbs thereof in mount Ephraim, and Gazer, |
For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
So David did as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge), and Gezer,
Meanwhile, Horam king of Gezer had come up to help Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army – until no survivors were left.
They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labour.
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Kibzaim and Beth Horon, together with their pasture-lands – four towns.
Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother’s brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother’s clan,