1. Judges 9:1 (ESV)
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Where was Shechem located?

Judges 9:1 (ESV)

1 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,

Shechem was in the heartland of Israel, about fifty kilometres north of Jerusalem, and twenty-five kilometres west of the Jordan.

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