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    Shechem (/ˈʃɛkəm/ SHEK-əm; Hebrew: שְׁכֶם, romanized: Šəḵem; Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠬࠥࠊࠝࠌ, romanized: Šăkēm), also spelled Sichem (/ˈsɪkəm/ SIK-əm; Ancient...
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    Dinah (redirect from Prince Shechem)
    child and only daughter of Leah and Jacob. The episode of her violation by Shechem, son of a Canaanite or Hivite prince, and the subsequent vengeance of her...
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    seduced) by a Canaanite named Shechem. Simeon and his brother Levi took violent revenge against the inhabitants of Shechem by tricking them into circumcising...
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    Abimelech (Judges) (category Shechem)
    Abimelech (/əˈbɪməˌlɛk/; אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ’Ǎḇīmeleḵ) or Abimelek was the king of Shechem and a son of biblical judge Gideon. His name can best be interpreted as...
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    Book of Genesis, Levi and his brother, Simeon, exterminate the city of Shechem in revenge for the rape of Dinah, seizing the wealth of the city and killing...
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    Mount Gerizim (redirect from Oak of Shechem)
    immediate vicinity of the Palestinian city of Nablus and the biblical city of Shechem. It forms the southern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated,...
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    Joseph's Tomb (category Shechem)
    the Late Bronze Age and later biblical Shechem. One biblical tradition identifies the general area of Shechem as the resting-place of the biblical patriarch...
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    ceremony at Shechem (Joshua 24) Joshua's final farewell address to the people of Israel in this chapter was during a ceremony in Shechem (verse 1), which...
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  • Salting the earth (category Shechem)
    folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book of Judges, 9:45. The supposed salting...
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    Damascus Gate (redirect from Shechem Gate)
    a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times past, to the capital of Syria, Damascus;...
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