1. Abrams grandson, Jacob, came to Shechem after he returned from Padan-Aram, undoubtedly tracing the traditional same steps of his grandfather. Peniel. Joshua also tells them to put away the gods which your fathers served. He calls them together at Shechem as if to say: Remember how Abram put away his idols and came here, and remember Gods promise to Abram in this spot? Later History: Probably during the captivity Hebron came into the hands of Edom, though it appears to have been colonized by returning Jews (Neh 11:25); it was recovered from Edom by Simon Maccabeus (1 Macc 5:65; Josephus, Ant, XII, viii, 6). Along the way he saw in a dream a ladder reaching to heaven with angels ascending and descending which proved to be a type of Jesus. 7. or from Beersheba to. One of the towns in the territory of Asher, Jos 19:28 probably Ebdon or Abdom.Hebron in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE he'-brun (chebhron, "league" or "confederacy"; Chebron): One of the most ancient and important cities in Southern Israel, now known to the Moslems as el Khalil (i.e. 1:26). It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz (Gen. 28:19). Though Noah was an obedient man to God, it seems Ham wasn't always a nice guy, and his typical teenager shenanigans sealed the fate of millions of people for centuries. By Amos (5:5) it is classed with Bethel and Gilgal as one of the rival shrines to the pure worship of Yahweh, and in another place (8:14) he writes "They shall fall, and never rise up again," who sware, "As the way (i.e. Shechem in Israel's History. Jacob lived out his last years in Egypt with his sons until his death. The third resting place of Abram; Shechem was the first, Bethel the second. Abimelech, whose mother was a native of the city, persuaded the men of Shechem to make him king (Judges 9:1-6), evidently seeking a certain consecration from association with "the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem." The Holy Land Satellite Atlas, Vol. Free Digital Maps Set: 41 Bible Maps (the complete set) His history is related in the latter half of the book of Genesis. Ur developed during the reign of the Sumerian kings (c.3000 - 2300BC) and had been a major city for hundreds of years when Abram was born. 4:28). It was in the city of Beersheba where Jacob deceived his brother Esau and the strife developed, Jacob departed from Beersheba to go to his family in PadanAram, to the city of Haran (Gen. 25:28-34; 27:1-46). Douglas, J. D., and Merrill C. Tenney, eds. In Genesis 9:18-27 we read of Noah's curse. 3. After the overthrow of Israel, the king of Assyria sent one of the Israelite priests to settle at Bethel, and teach the new settlers from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, "the manner of the god of the land," and "how they should fear Jehovah" (2 Kings 17:27- 28). When Judah returned from exile to the southern portion of the nation, the Samaritans requested to help rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Ex 6:18; Nu 3:19; 1Ch 6:2,18; 23:12 He was the founder of a family of Hebronites, Nu 3:27; 26:58; 1Ch 26:23,30,31, or Bene-Hebron. In today's reading, the words of Moses (Deut. And he bought an allotment of the field where he had spread his tent, at the hands of Hamor's sons, father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs (lambs). Then you too put away your idols in this spot. We should put away what is wrong and embrace what is rightor better, who is right, because Joshua says again at the end of v 14: serve the LORD.. 10. (c) In the Jewish tractate Pirqe Abhoth, iii.l, we read of a Jew named 'Aqabhyah, which is a name composed of the same verbal root as that in Jacob, together with the Divine name Yahu (i.e. Jud 1:22,23 After the conquest Bethel is frequently heard of. Hosea 6:9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes. Against God's directive to settle in Bethel (28:21; 31:3, 13), Jacob settles near the city of Shechem instead. Succoth. 1. Joshua 24:32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. Wayne Stiles serves as host of Walking the Bible Lands, where he leads virtual devotional tours of the Holy Land through creative video. This study will discuss the significance of Shechem, a city in central Israel. In addition to the Ridge Route leading south, the road also passed directly through Shechem, which lay on the northeastern side of Mount Gerizim and just south of Mount Ebal. Read the same article here on BiblicalStudies.org.. Shechem: Its Archaeological and Contextual Significance (Bible Archaeology) A nice discussion of the archaeology around Shechem, from . Judges 8:31 His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. It was the favorite home of Abraham. Judges 9:26 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. As a result of a severe drought in Canaan, Jacob moved to Egypt at the time when his son Joseph was viceroy. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. A few years after this, a new city, Flavia Neapolis, was built by Vespasian a short distance to the west of the old one. After the Israelites blazed a safe trail to central Canaan by defeating Jericho and Ai, they immediately went 34 km north to convene a covenant ceremony in the area of Shechem (Josh 8:30-35). (2.) Also from Mahanaim Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to request peace from his brother Esau (Gen. 32:1-5). 4:15; 5:8; 10:5, 8) calls it in contempt Beth-aven, i.e., "house of idols." Located in the Hill Country of Ephraim, the city of Shechem played a vital role in the history of Israel. Hebron was called for a time also Mamre, from Abram's ally (Genesis 23:19; Genesis 35:27). First Joshua says: the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River. You can choose to follow the perhaps bad example of your parents and make the same mistakes they have made by being loyal to the things they were loyal to. Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD (v 14). Picture Study Bible - StudyBible with Pictures and Maps. Beersheba. Probably because of its ease of access in a time of possible flight, a manslayer could take refuge from his avenger in Shechem, one of the three cities of refuge on the west side of the Jordan (Josh. Two million Jews would gather at Shiloh on the main festivals and would camp on the surrounding hills. Bible Book: Genesis. The vicinity was long the favorite camping-ground of the patriarchs. 8. a. Bethel. The town was situated in a narrow valley - the "Valley of the Eschol; " whose sides are clothed with vineyards, groves of olives, and other fruit trees. It was a favourite place of abode of both of these patriarchs (21:33-22:1, 19; 26:33; 28:10). 11. of God, and this is the modern name of Hebron. Terah dies in Haran five years later. 20 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe . saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,Jeremiah 46:28 - Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.Ezekiel 20:5 - And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;Genesis 27:46 - And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?Isaiah 60:16 - Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.Genesis 30:31 - And he said, What shall I give thee? Jacob purchased a parcel of a field which contained the well that he had dug there. A tradition which first appears in a definite shape in Josephus, and is now almost universally accepted, asserts that the "Mount Moriah" of the Chronicles is identical with the "mountain" in "the land of Moriah" of Genesis, and that the spot on which Jehovah appeared to David, and on which the temple was built, was the very spot of the sacrifice of Isaac.Mount Moriah Scripture - 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. According to Acts they were all buried at Shechem in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor. These are the sons of Jacob, who were . Interestingly, Jesus said the same thing in this same spot when He told the woman at Jacobs well that the worshippers God seeks are those who worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24)worship with ones inside, the spirit, not just the outside. Around the large are nine stone troughs; around the smaller, five. A town in the south of Judah (Josh. New Testament Overview - General survey of the New Testament. Mount Bethel was a hilly district near Bethel (Josh. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987. This arguing between our herdsmen has got to stop, he said. (a) In Babylonian documents of the period of the Patriarchs, there occur such personal names as Ja-ku-bi, Ja-ku-ub-ilu (the former doubtless an abbreviation of the latter), and Aq-bu-u (compare Aq-bi-a-hu), according to Hilprecht a syncopated form for A-qu(? Abraham planted here a" grove" ('eshel) (distinct from the idol grove, Asheerah, or Astarte Baal), or tree, the tamarisk, long living, of hard wood, with long, clustering, evergreenBeersheba in Hitchcock's Bible Names the well of an oath; the seventh wellBeersheba in Naves Topical Bible 1. 15:10), who probably expected to find his chief support in the tribe of Judah, now called el-Khulil. 13. Shechem is also where Abraham camped when first arriving in Canaan after God called him to enter the land of promise (Genesis 12:6). Jacob names this altar El-Elohe-Israel, which means "the mighty God is the God of Israel." This is the first record in which an . "Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God" Gen (21:33). 2. Shechem first steps on the pages of Scripture as Abram enters the land of Canaan. A city of the tribe of Judah, south of Jerusalem When built Nu 13:22 Fortified 2Ch 11:10 Called KIRJATH-ARBA Ge 23:2 ARBA Ge 35:27; Jos 15:13 Abraham lived there and Sarah died at Ge 23:2 Hoham, king of, confederated with other kings of the Canaanites against Joshua Jos 10:3-39 Descendants of the Anakim live at Nu 13:22; Jos 11:21 Conquest of, by Caleb Jos 14:6-15; Jud 1:10,20 A city of refuge Jos 20:7; 21:11,13 David crowned king of Judah at 2Sa 2:1-11; 3 David crowned king of Israel at 2Sa 5:1-5 The burial place of Sarah Ge 23:2 The burial place of Abner 2Sa 3:32 The burial place of Ish-bosheth 2Sa 4:12 The conspirators against Ish-bosheth hanged at 2Sa 4:12 Absalom made king at 2Sa 15:9,10 Jews of the Babylonian captivity lived at Ne 11:25 Pool of 2Sa 4:12 -3. Those three verses included God's call to Abram and the covenantal promises that God gave to Abram Remember that God's call was to leave the world that . The naming of Bethel Jacob repeated more publicly on his return home, 20 years later, with his family purified of idols, when God again appeared to him, and confirmed his change of name to Israel (Genesis 35:1-15; Genesis 32:28). The Promised land in Canaan. DeVries, LaMoine F. Cities of the Biblical World. Judges 9:6 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem. Then he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe . Joshua 24:1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. Laban was angry when he heard that Jacob had set out on his journey, and pursued after him, overtaking him in seven days. 1. Joshua also designated Shechem as a city of refuge. Almost every plaque I have seen which quotes this verse says: Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. It always leaves off the part about: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. I think omitting the lines lessens the punch and the point of the statement. The tope was levelled by Solomon, and immense walls were built around it from the base to enlarge the level surface for the temple area. Hiel the Bethelite is recorded as the rebuilder of Jericho. The miles based distance from Egypt to Canaan is 5270.8 miles. The war of conquest being done, Joseph's bones were buried in the parcel of ground which Jacob had bought, and which fell to the lot of Joseph's descendants (24:33). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975-1976. How far was Canaan from Ur? 8. It was then the seat of Canaanite idolatry, the temple of Baal-berith being here (Judges 9:4, 46). All this combined made Samaria an ideal place for a capital. And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. Jacob's children fulfilled their promise and carried the coffin all the way to Canaan. 1 Chronicles 6:67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs. The birthright secured to him who possessed it (1) superior rank in his family (Gen. 49:3); (2) a double portion of the paternal inheritance (Deut. Bethel in Easton's Bible Dictionary house of God. . Bethel belonged by lot to Benjamin, but was falcon by Ephraim (Bethel being on his southern border) through the treachery of an inhabitant (Judges 1:22-26). 27:4). S. of the town in the bottom of the valley is a tank, 130 ft. square by 50 deep. And the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. of God, a favorite name for Abraham; compare Jas 2:23). Judges 9:28 Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Hebron is one of the most ancient cities in the world still existing; and in this respect it is the rival of Damascus. The main center of interest in the town is the synagogue of the Samaritans, with their ancient manuscript of the Pentateuch.3. (b) In the list of places in Israel conquered by the Pharaoh Thutmose III appears a certain J'qb'r, which in Egyptian characters represents the Semitic letters ya`aqobh-'el, and which therefore seems to show that in the earlier half of the 15th century BC (so Petrie, Breasted) there was a place (not a tribe; see W. M. Muller, Asien und Europa, 162 ff) in Central Israel that bore a name in some way connected with "Jacob." Rasmussem, Carl G. Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible. We should not think that because Joshua speaks of idols, and because we do not have wooden statues in our culture, that this text does not apply. Josephus mistakenly places here the dream of Solomon (Ant., VIII, ii, 1) which occurred at Gibeon (1 Ki 3:4). Haran. ; the King James Version gives "Sichem" in Genesis 12:6; and "Sychem" in Acts 7:16):1. Again Jacob journeyed southward, and at Bethlehem Rachel gave birth to Benjamin, but she died in giving childbirth and was buried there (Gen. 35:16-20). It is picturesquely situated in a narrow valley running from N. to S. (probably that of Eshcol, whence the spies got the great cluster of grapes, Numbers 13:23), surrounded by rocky hills, still famed for fine grapes. God used this sad turn of events to eventually take the entire family of Israel to Egypt, protecting and multiplying them. To this second occasion of God's speaking with Jacob at Bethel, Hosea (12:4,5) makes reference. It was David's first capital. Mutton was preferred to camel meat, which came second in popularity, costing US$2/kg. Genesis 33:18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.. Genesis 35:4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears .
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