Genesis 37:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

Genesis 37:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 33:18
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
Genesis 37:1
And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 34:25-31
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-22)

Here is, I. The kind visit which Joseph, in obedience to his father’s command, made to his brethren, who were feeding the flock at Shechem, many miles off. Some suggest that they went thither on purpose, expecting that Joseph would be sent to see them, and that then they should have an opportunity to do him a mischief. However, Joseph and his father had both of them more of the innocence of the do…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem--The vale of Shechem was, from the earliest mention of Canaan, blest with extraordinary abundance of water. Therefore did the sons of Jacob go from Hebron to this place, though it must have cost them near twenty hours’ travelling--that is, at the shepherd rate, a little more than fifty miles. But the herbage there was so rich and nutrit…