He bought a parcel of ground from Hamor, chief of Shechem, for a "hundred pieces of money." It also conveniently lay along a major road to Shechem. The third son of Kohath, who was the second son of Levi. Here in Egypt Jacob met Joseph and there were great tears and rejoicing among them. The worship of Jehovah and of the calves had been all along strangely blended. Jeroboam chose Shechem as the capital for the Northern Kingdom, perhaps because of the significant history there for Ephraim. Abraham came first to Shechem when he entered Canaan (Genesis 12:6), and God confirmed the promise to give the land to him. After the overthrow of Israel, the king of Assyria sent one of the Israelite priests to settle at Bethel, and teach the new settlers from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, "the manner of the god of the land," and "how they should fear Jehovah" (2 Kings 17:27- 28). in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her. In addition to the Ridge Route leading south, the road also passed directly through Shechem, which lay on the northeastern side of Mount Gerizim and just south of Mount Ebal. Around the large are nine stone troughs; around the smaller, five. And at Abimelechs coronation, Jotham climbed Mount Gerizim and shouted a curse on Shechem for Abimelechs sin. Haran. It lay in the pass which cuts through Mts. Later Jacob settled here, and dug a well. The surrounding country is bleak and barren, the hills being marked by a succession of stony terraces, which may have suggested the form of the ladder in Jacob's famous dream. Bethel still abounds in stones such as Jacob used for his pillow and afterward for a sanctuary. Do you want Gods blessing in the land? Hebron. In the troubled times when there was no king in Israel, it was to Bethel that the people went up in their distress to ask counsel of God. The town was situated in a narrow valley - the "Valley of the Eschol; " whose sides are clothed with vineyards, groves of olives, and other fruit trees. It was at Mahanaim that a host of angels came to comfort Jacob. Third son of Kohath; younger brother of Amram, father of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 6:18). Terah dies in Haran five years later. Joshua 8:30. To the rich pasture land near Shechem Joseph came to seek his brethren (Genesis 37:12). Ritter makes Medinet Gai answer to Ai. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand. Ultimately, as the road passed through the Jabbok Valley, it reached the Transjordanian Highway. The ancient city may have lain somewhat farther East than the modern Nablus, in which the Roman name Neapolis survives. A city in the south end of the valley of Eshcol, about midway between Jerusalem and Beersheba, from which it is distant about 20 miles in a straight line. Genesis 35:26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. Jeremiah 41:5 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh. This geographical information is inaccurate. And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. As Wood suggests, the military outpost there, visible . It still exists under the same name, and is one of the most ancient cities in the world. Gottwald held that Israel emerged from within the population of Canaan and not by invasion from outside of it. Remember how you yourselves shouted the blessings and the curses in this spot? Gerizim (Sirach 50:26; Ant, XI, viii, 6; XII, i, 1; XIII, iii, 4). Matthew 1:15 - And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;Genesis 47:9 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Leviticus 26:42 - Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.Deuteronomy 30:20 - That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.Genesis 31:43 - And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?Genesis 35:20 - And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.Isaiah 44:21 - Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou [art] my servant: I have formed thee; thou [art] my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.Malachi 1:2 - I have loved you, saith the LORD. 7:16). But there are a number of independent indications that Jacob belongs to that large class of names consisting of a verb with some Divine name or title (in this case 'El) as the subject, from which the common abbreviated form is derived by omitting the subject. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995. It was in the city of Beersheba where Jacob deceived his brother Esau and the strife developed, Jacob departed from Beersheba to go to his family in PadanAram, to the city of Haran (Gen. 25:28-34; 27:1-46). As a result of a severe drought in Canaan, Jacob moved to Egypt at the time when his son Joseph was viceroy. Genesis 12:6-8 Jacob also came to Shechem and found Hivites living in the area. Abram journeyed from Haran to Shechem. In Jewish tradition, the old name was understood in . In the same neighborhood He vouchsafed a vision to Abram (Genesis 14; Genesis 15:1) after Melchizedek had met him in the valley near Salem and Abram paid tithe of the spoils of Chedorlaomer. He was presented to Pharaoh, and dwelt for seventeen years in Rameses and Goshen, and died in his 147th year. Hither he had come after his meeting with Esau (Genesis 33:18). Sabbath. It retained this name till it came into the possession of Caleb, when the Israelites restored the original name Hebron" (Keil, Com.). In this city Absalom found a center for his disaffection, and repairing there under pretense of performing a vow to Yahweh, he raised the standard of revolt (2 Sam 15:7 f). Jacob secretly left Haran because his father-in-law was envious of Jacob's wealth and was planning to take revenge. These wells are in constant use today. "Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God" Gen (21:33). And the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. God called Abram from Haran to Canaan (Genesis 12:1). [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? The threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite was the spot on which David reared an altar by Gad's direction from Jehovah. The naming of Bethel Jacob repeated more publicly on his return home, 20 years later, with his family purified of idols, when God again appeared to him, and confirmed his change of name to Israel (Genesis 35:1-15; Genesis 32:28). The nation of Israel was divided at Shechem. The copious springs which supply abundance of water rise at the base of Gerizim. 8:17; 12:16).Bethel in Fausset's Bible Dictionary ("house of God".) Peniel. But "life-long sorrow, disgrace, and trials, in the retributive providence of God, followed as a consequence of this double union." Then Joshua built an altar Namely, after the taking of Ai. 3:1). It takes approximately 3h 25m to get from Hebron to Shechem, including transfers. 102 - 141 days from . 3 Even after the conquest, the wadi functioned as the border between Benjamin and Ephraim (Jos 18:12-13). In the 40th year of David's reign 2,700 of them, at Jazer in Gilead, "mighty men of valor," superintended for the king the two and a half tribes "in matters pertaining to God and the king" (1 Chronicles 26:30- 32); Jerijah was their chief. Still there is an oak bearing Abraham's name, 23 ft. in girth, and covering 90 ft. space in diameter. The land was named Canaan after Noah's grandson whose father was named Ham. So he packed all their belongings and journeyed again, reaching Shechem in Canaan first, then the hills of Bethel, and finally south to the Negev. 03) In a straight line from Shechem, to Bethel, to Egypt it is about 254 miles (409 Km). A town in the north border of Asher (Josh. 2. (a) In Babylonian documents of the period of the Patriarchs, there occur such personal names as Ja-ku-bi, Ja-ku-ub-ilu (the former doubtless an abbreviation of the latter), and Aq-bu-u (compare Aq-bi-a-hu), according to Hilprecht a syncopated form for A-qu(? From this place the patriarch departed for Egypt by way of Beersheba (37:14; 46:1). The tribes were divided into two groups, each standing in front of one . 67, 113, 98 and 4). It lay, like all threshing floors, outside the city, upon Mount Moriah, N.E. it is the Eastern eminence of Jerusalem, separated from Mount Zion by the Tyropoeon valley. According to Acts they were all buried at Shechem in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor. Eusebius, Onomasticon places it 12 Roman miles from Jerusalem, on the road to Neapolis. Jacob left Hebron and set out for Egypt. Hither the ark was brought from Gilgal (Jdg 2:1, Septuagint). Jacob purchased a parcel of a field which contained the well that he had dug there. Built seven years before Zoan in Egypt (Numbers 13:22). Then follows the story of Dinah's defilement by Shechem, son of the city's chief; and of the treacherous and terrible vengeance exacted by Simeon and Levi (Genesis 34). . The birthright secured to him who possessed it (1) superior rank in his family (Gen. 49:3); (2) a double portion of the paternal inheritance (Deut. Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldees when his father, Terah, was 130 years old. Ironically, this idolatrous center was just south of Shechem, where their forefathers and Joshua made the covenant to worship God alone (1 Kings 12:25-33). And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant (vv. Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him? The well dug by Abraham and secured to him by oath had been covered and lost. Joseph's haughtiness only worsened his precarious situation and shows us the danger of pride. The Canaanite was then in the land. A 'ziggurat' (a stepped temple platform) about 70 feet / 21 metres high, surmounted by a temple and shrine to the Akkadian moon god Sin, was built by King Ur . The Bible says that Shechem was a Hivite city and Hamor was chief. The stones around the mouth are worn into grooves by the action of ropes for so many ages. 2:1-4, 11; 1 Kings 2:11). God used this sad turn of events to eventually take the entire family of Israel to Egypt, protecting and multiplying them. Rasmussem, Carl G. Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible. God wants to know us personally. Joseph arrives in Shechem, a distance of about 50 miles from Hebron, but his brothers are nowhere to be found. The distance between hebron israel to shechem Israel is 143 Km by road. Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho under the curse (1 Kings 16:34).Bethel in Hitchcock's Bible Names the house of GodBethel in Naves Topical Bible 1. Aharoni, Yohanan, and Micheal Avi-Yonah. Then he says: or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. You can choose to follow the culture you live in and be loyal to their priorities. Here also Samuel held in rotation his court of justice (1 Sam. Joseph was the father of Ephraim and Manasseh, and so Joshua buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor . 3. 2. . Frank, Harry Thomas, Ed. A walk with God (literally, for about 100 miles) Not ours, but Gods. It is nearly midway between the southern end of the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.Beersheba in Fausset's Bible Dictionary Beersheba means "well of the oath". But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. When Abram entered Canaan he formed his second encampment between Bethel and Hai (Gen. 12:8); and on his return from Egypt he came back to it, and again "called upon the name of the Lord" (13:4). "Arba was a great man among the Anakims, father of Anak." I. 8:30-35). the pestilence. The name Bethel was at first apparently given to the sanctuary in the neighbourhood of Luz, and was not given to the city itself till after its conquest by the tribe of Ephraim. The Bible speaks of the importance of having a personal relationship with Christ, not a surrogate relationship through our parents, peers, or pastor. The Angel of Jehovah had stood by Araunah's threshing floor; there David saw Him, and Araunah (Ornan) also, subsequently on turning back, saw Him and hid himself. Isn't he the son of Jerubbaal? The miles based distance from Ur to Canaan is 3461.2 miles. Excavations, mainly in the 20th century, have unearthed the remains of many important Canaanite cities, including Bet Shean, Gezer, Hazor, Jericho, Jerusalem, Lachish, Megiddo, and Shechem.The most important literary sources for the region's history are the Old . ABRAHAM'S EARLY LIFE. If we are to accept the precise definition of Ge 12:8 the name of Bethel would appear to have existed at this spot even before the arrival of Abram in Canaan. The wadi formed a natural and political boundary between the southern territory governed by the city-state of Jerusalem and the central territory governed by the city-state of Shechem. His body was embalmed, carried with great care and pomp into the land of Canaan, and deposited with his fathers, and his wife Leah, in the cave of Machpelah. Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Shechem was the place where Joseph's remains were buried (Joshua 24:32). The meeting was of a painful kind. Mahanaim. It is traversed by the carriage road leading to Jaffa and the sea. But this time, the command to move to Canaan came with a blessing explicitly stated in Genesis 12:2-3. The Tabernacle of Ancient Israel - Brief Overview of the Tabernacle of Moses in the Wilderness and the Ark of the Covenant. The other well is 5 feet in diameter, and was 42 feet to the water. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.Amos 8:14 - They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.1 Chronicles 21:2 - And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].Genesis 21:14 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.2 Kings 12:1 - In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem.