Shechem

Family: Hivites · Role: son of Hamor · First appears: Genesis 33

Shechem was a Hivite and the son of Hamor. In Genesis 33, Hamor is connected with the parcel of land bought by Jacob. In Genesis 34, Shechem took Dinah, lay with her, and defiled her, then asked Hamor to obtain her as his wife: “Get me this damsel to wife.”

After Simeon and Levi conditioned giving Dinah on the circumcision of every male, all the males among the city’s people were circumcised. On the third day, Simeon and Levi slew Hamor and Shechem with swords: “And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword.” In Numbers 26, Shechem appears in a parent relationship with Gilead, in the listing of the family of the Shechemites.

Relationship record

Life events

• Shechem took Dinah, lay with her, and defiled her.(Genesis 34)
  • With: Dinah
  • “he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.”
• Shechem requested that Hamor obtain Dinah as his wife.(Genesis 34)
  • With: Hamor Dinah
  • “Get me this damsel to wife.”
• Simeon and Levi deceitfully conditioned giving Dinah on circumcision of every male.(Genesis 34)
  • With: Simeon Levi Dinah Hamor
  • “If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;”
• Every male among the city’s people was circumcised.(Genesis 34)
  • With: Hamor
  • “every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.”
• Simeon and Levi slew Hamor and Shechem with swords.(Genesis 34)
  • With: Simeon Levi Hamor
  • “And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword”

Genesis 33

• parent: Hamor “And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.”

Genesis 34

• with Dinah (Shechem sexually assaulted and defiled Dinah.) “And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.”
• admired: Dinah “And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.”
• slayer: Simeon “And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.”
• slayer: Levi “And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.”
• courtship with Dinah “And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.”

Numbers 26

• parent: Gilead “And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:”

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