Quotes about Shechem
Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury.
- Martin Luther
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
- Genesis 12:6
After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
- Genesis 33:18
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Genesis 33:19
So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
- Genesis 34:4
Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
- Genesis 34:6
When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
- Genesis 34:7
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
- Genesis 34:20
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
- Genesis 34:24
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- Genesis 35:4
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
- Genesis 37:12
Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
- Genesis 37:13