he met some relatives of the late King Ahaziah of Judah and asked them, "Who are you?" "Ahaziah's relatives," they answered. "We are going to Jezreel to pay our respects to the children of Queen Jezebel and to the rest of the royal family."

Jehu ordered his men, "Take them alive!" They seized them, and he put them to death near a pit there. There were forty-two people in all, and not one of them was left alive.

On his return from Mesopotamia Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan and set up his camp in a field near the city.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. This land was inherited by Joseph's descendants.

Gideon's son Abimelech went to the town of Shechem, where all his mother's relatives lived, and told them

Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the people of northern Israel had gathered to make him king.

King Jeroboam of Israel fortified the town of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there for a while. Then he left and fortified the town of Penuel.

Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.

And so, what I did to Shiloh I will do to this Temple of mine, in which you trust. Here in this place that I gave to your ancestors and you, I will do the same thing that I did to Shiloh.

After they had conquered the land, the entire community of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of the LORD's presence.

and then he bought the hill of Samaria for six thousand pieces of silver from a man named Shemer. Omri fortified the hill, built a town there, and named it Samaria, after Shemer, the former owner of the hill.

In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he ruled in Samaria for twenty-two years.

Do not cut the hair on the sides of your head or trim your beard

or tattoo yourselves or cut gashes in your body to mourn for the dead. I am the LORD.

"You are the people of the LORD your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.

Hanun seized David's messengers, shaved off one side of their beards, cut off their clothes at the hips, and sent them away.

The people of Dibon climb the hill to weep at the shrine. The people of Moab wail in grief over the cities of Nebo and Medeba; they have shaved their heads and their beards in grief.

This went on year after year; whenever they went to the house of the LORD, Peninnah would upset Hannah so much that she would cry and refuse to eat anything.

He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem,

Your servants love her, even though she is destroyed; they have pity on her, even though she is in ruins.