Sichem

Jacob bought “a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent” near Shechem for an hundred pieces of money, and that small purchase keeps coming back. Joseph’s bones, carried up out of Egypt, were buried there (Joshua 24:32), and Acts 7:16 spells the place Sychem. Shechem in mount Ephraim was later named a city of refuge (Joshua 20:7), and in Judges 8:31 a concubine there bore Gideon a son, Abimelech. Nave’s list also takes in two men named Shechem, in Numbers 26 and 1 Chronicles 7. Begin at Genesis 33:18-20 and read forward to Joshua 24.

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Genesis

Genesis 33:19

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

Numbers

Numbers 26:31

And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:

Joshua

Joshua 20:7

And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

Joshua 21:21

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,

Joshua 24:32

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Judges

Judges 8:31

And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 7:19

And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

Acts

Acts 7:16

And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

=She’chem, (q.v.), Gen. 12:6.

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(Genesis 12:6) [SHECHEM]

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Dictionary entries from Easton's Bible Dictionary and Smith's Bible Dictionary. Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.