Place
Shechem
Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.
A city in the pass between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. Abram passed through it, Jacob camped before it, and Joseph's bones were buried here. Joshua renewed the covenant at Shechem, and here the northern tribes broke with Rehoboam.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Abraham, Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
- Jacob, Genesis 33:18
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
- Joseph (OT), Genesis 37:13
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.
- Joshua, Joshua 24:1
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.
- Joseph (OT), Joshua 24:32
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.
- Rehoboam, 1 Kings 12:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
- Jeroboam, 1 Kings 12:25
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).