1 Kings 12:25 References
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Then aJeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived there. And he went out from there and built bPenuel.
a Genesis 12:6, Judges 9:45-49
Genesis 12
6
Abram passed through the land as far as the site of aShechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.
Judges 9
45
Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he arazed the city and sowed it with salt.
46
When all the leaders of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the inner chamber of the temple of aEl-berith.
47
It was told Abimelech that all the leaders of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
48
So Abimelech went up to Mount aZalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, "What you have seen me do, hurry and do likewise."
49
All the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.