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INTRODUCTION:
Shechem/Shekem - shoulder; (7927) - the same as 'shkem' (7926); ridge; Shekem, a place in Palestine; 7926 - from 'shakam' (7925); the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of a hill:--back, X consent, portion, shoulder.; 7925 - a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from 'shkem' (7926); literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning:--(arise, be up, get (oneself) up, rise up) early (betimes), morning.
Joshua made a covenant with the people of Israel in Shechem before he died.
The bones of Joseph were buried in Shechem.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
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.' (KJV)
18'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.' (KJV)
2'And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.' (KJV)
12'And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.' (KJV)
13'And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.' (KJV)
14'And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.' (KJV)
30'These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:' (KJV)
31'And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:' (KJV)
1'And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.' (KJV)
25'So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.' (KJV)
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.' (KJV)
6'God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.' (KJV)
7'God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.' (KJV)