Shechem Area, well, Mount Ebal, in the hill country of Ephraim. Here the Lord appeared to Abram and promised the land to him, Genesis 12:6, 7. Jacob settled here for awhile until his daughter Dinah was raped and Jacob's sons Simeon and Levi murdered men of the city in revenge (Genesis 34).

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