Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.

Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.

Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.

Gaal son of Ebed came through Shechem with his brothers. The leaders of Shechem transferred their loyalty to him.

The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

God sent a spirit to stir up hostility between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal to Abimelech.

All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar in Shechem.

When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

So Gaal led the leaders of Shechem out and fought Abimelech.

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were in one place.

and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

from Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; from Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.

Abimelech went back to Arumah; Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.

Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Acquire this young girl as my wife.”

But if not, may fire blaze from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo! May fire also blaze from the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo and consume Abimelech!”

That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.