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Shechem (/ˈʃɛkəm/ SHEK-əm; Hebrew: שְׁכֶם, romanized: Šəḵem,
Biblical pronunciation: [ʃəˈxɛm];
Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠬࠥࠊࠝࠌ, romanized: Šăkēm), also spelled...
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child and only
daughter of Leah and Jacob. The
episode of her
violation by
Shechem, son of a
Canaanite or
Hivite prince, and the
subsequent vengeance of her...
- seduced) by a
Canaanite named Shechem.
Simeon and his
brother Levi took
violent revenge against the
inhabitants of
Shechem by
tricking them into cir****cising...
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Abimelech (/əˈbɪməˌlɛk/; אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ’Ǎḇīmeleḵ) or
Abimelek was the king of
Shechem and the
tribal territory of Man****eh, and a son of
biblical judge Gideon...
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immediate vicinity of the
Palestinian city of
Nablus and the
biblical city of
Shechem. It
forms the
southern side of the
valley in
which Nablus is situated,...
- a
highway leading out to Nablus,
which in the
Hebrew Bible was
called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in
times past, to the
capital of Syria, Damascus;...
- Book of Genesis, Levi and his brother, Simeon,
exterminate the city of
Shechem in
revenge for the rape of Dinah,
seizing the
wealth of the city and killing...
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ceremony at
Shechem (Joshua 24) Joshua's
final farewell address to the
people of
Israel in this
chapter was
during a
ceremony in
Shechem (verse 1), which...
- The
country splits into two kingdoms:
Israel (including the
cities of
Shechem and Samaria) in the
north and
Judah (containing Jerusalem) in the south...
- the Late
Bronze Age and
later biblical Shechem. One
biblical tradition identifies the
general area of
Shechem as the resting-place of the
biblical patriarch...
