Here Jehovah first appeared to His pilgrim servant Abram in the land, and promised it to his seed. Here was his first halt and altar to the Lord, who appeared to him.
At Shalem in Shechem.—Gen. 33:18-20. Jacob returning from exile, bought a field of Shechem, spread a tent, and built an altar to El-elohe-Israel.
Gen. 34, And, ere forced by the sin and treachery of his sons to move on, he gathered all the strange gods which were in their hands, and the earrings, and buried them under an oak. Gen. 35:4. (Was it about this time that he dug the well?)
Shechem.—Gen. 37:12,13. Joseph's brethren, after his dreams, fed their flocks here. He went thither (ver.14) seeking them.
Josh. 24:32. It was his (Joseph's) burying-place, on a shoulder (or Shechem) of Gerizim. Deut. 11, 27; Josh. 8 Moses ordered six tribes to stand, as to God's blessing the obedient people.
Shechem--Josh. 20:7;21:21; 1 Chron. 6:67—in Ephraim was a city of refuge for the manslayer.
Josh. 24:1. Was Joshua's final rendezvous, for his charge to the people.
Judg. 9 City of Levites though it was, strange wickednesses were wrought as to God and as to man there.
Judg. 9:1. As a kingdom had here been first attempted, so here David's and Solomon's kingdom was divided. 1 Kings 12:1,25; 2 Chr. 10:1.