Review of Israel’s History

24 Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem(A) and summoned Israel’s elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.(B)

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The Covenant at Shechem(A)

24 Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to (B)Shechem and (C)called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they (D)presented themselves before God.

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Abimelech Becomes King

Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and spoke to them and to all his maternal grandfather’s clan, saying,

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Abimelech’s Conspiracy

Then Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to (A)his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

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God has spoken in His sanctuary:[a]
“I will triumph! I will divide up Shechem.(A)
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 60:6 Or has promised by His holy nature

God has (A)spoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice;
I will (B)divide (C)Shechem
And measure out (D)the Valley of Succoth.

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16 were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.(A)

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16 And (A)they were carried back to Shechem and laid in (B)the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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