Shechem - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Shechem - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Shechem ( ), also spelled Sichem ( ; ; ;LXX. Samaritan Hebrew: , ), was an ancient city in the southern Levant. Mentioned as a Canaanite city in the Amarna Letters, it later appears in the Hebrew Bible as the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel following the split of the United Monarchy.I Book of Kings 12:25 According to , it was located in the tribal territorial allotment of the tribe of Ephraim. Shechem declined after the fall of the northern Kingdom of Israel. The city later regained its importance as a prominent Samaritan center during the Hellenistic period. Read more on Wikipedia
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