Joshua 24

Joshua 24:1

Shechem] Shechem was a City in Mount Ephraim, Josh. XX. 7. North-North-East from Shiloh, and Bethel; and close by Mount Gerizim, and Ebal Judg. IX. 7. Here Abraham and Jacob had sojourned; And Jacobs two sonnes, Simeon and Levi, young men, upon Dinah’s ravishment, murthered the Citizens, Gen. XXXIV.

Here after Gideons death, the Citizens worshipped Baal-Berith; and rebelled with Abimelech; and were after punished and spoyled by him, Judg. IX. This City in Ioshua’s time was made a City of Refuge, and given to the Kohathite-Levites, Iosh. XXI. 21. And here Ioshua made a Covenant with all the people to serve the Lord, Chap. XXIV. ver. 25.

The Mount Ephraim whereon the City stood, was famous for Burials: Here they buried Iosephs bones in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Iacob bought of the children of Hamor or Emor, Josh. XXIV. 32. Acts VII. 16. Gen. XXXIII. 19. Here was great Ioshua himself an Ephraimite, buried in his inheritance in Timnath-Scrah, or Heres, which is in Mount Ephraim, on the North-side of the hill Goash, Josh.

XXIV. 30. Judg. II. 9. And here was the High-Priest Eleazar buried in an Hill that pertained to Phineas his son, which was given him in Mount Ephraim, Josh. XXIV. 33. Here Deborah dwelt, Judg.

IV. 5. And Tola the Judge, ch. X. 1. Hither came Rehoboam to be made King: But Jeroboam was there made King in his stead; who built or fortified the City, and dwelt there, 1 King. XII. 1, 20, 25.