So, on the west side of the Jordan they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

He bought that part of the field from the descendants of Hamor father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.

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.

But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among the Ephraimites to this day, but they have been forced to work as slaves.

King Solomon used forced labor to build the Temple and the palace, to fill in land on the east side of the city, and to build the city wall. He also used it to rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

and Solomon rebuilt it.) Using his forced labor, Solomon also rebuilt Lower Beth Horon,

Shechem, the city of refuge in the hills of Ephraim, Gezer,