1 Kings 12:25

¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.

Then Jeroboam {H3379} built {H1129} Shechem {H7927} in mount {H2022} Ephraim {H669}, and dwelt {H3427} therein; and went out {H3318} from thence, and built {H1129} Penuel {H6439}.

Then Yarov'am built up Sh'khem in the hills of Efrayim and lived there. After that, he left and built up P'nu'el.

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

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel.

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  • Judges 8:17

    And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

  • Judges 8:8

    And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered [him].

  • Judges 9:45

    And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

  • Judges 9:49

    And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

  • Genesis 32:30

    And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

  • Genesis 32:31

    And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

  • Judges 9:1

    ¶ And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

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