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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim Joshua 20:7

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim Joshua 21:21

they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim Judges 21:19

“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Abimelech Made King At Judges 8:31

His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Abimelech Made King At Judges 9:1

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Destroyed by Abimelech Judges 9:45

And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Jesus Visits; Disciples Made In John 4:1–42

When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John / (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples), / He left Judea and returned to Galilee.

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Joshua Buried At Joshua 24:30–32

And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. / Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel. / And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Men of, Killed by Ishmael Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Rebuilt by Jeroboam 1 Kings 12:25

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

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Shechem: Also Called Sychar, a City of Refuge in Mount Ephraim: Rehoboam Crowned At 1 Kings 12:1

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

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