Show prosperous CITY OF EAST Sh shechem echers or nill as it 1 I nave called site of imp impressive no seem in biblical history A P prosperous rons oriental city nestle to in I 1 fertile brit 1 I valley bar between as two gnoun a valley hurt and ad all ran ded by gd g birdena d and ad olive groves shechem bachem or noalus a tt la now called 1 occupies the site elte of lome of the most at impressive scenes 1 IB bible history says the christian her hei kid aid ilar her abraham pitched ilia his tent tear and made the first stopping place la in his migration to the country of the lord said bald unto thy seed need will x ill I 1 III give this lead land here he joseph ffield I 1 the israelites israelite into two hosts one ot if which encamped romped et on the slope lope of a f mount ebel on the north and the other inon on tile tha tope slope of mount on the while the levites read the wo law rt of moses which was to be the constitution of the he infant nation at seems to have bole b been a sort of capitol capital for alii Is hebrew w nation even after david hail bad established shed hla big residence at jerusalem na 1 we read 1 in 1 I kinga king 12 th that S t all 11 boost assembled a S at Sha shechem chern to I 1 crown r keho boam the separ separatist atut cheass alementa ele menta t of in alii nation all sought ought to legitimatize their act kcf by making She shechem chern a temporary capital I 1 stan although gh the residence of the tha to corthern Dor th thern kings vas nas established at ft a polar point about sur six miles list northwest ord called somalia Sa marla shellman la 1 nowhere he mentioned by name a in 1 the new testament T star eart though te e either it or suburb appears in john 1 4 5 under the name of sochor and it was here at jacobs well wall that the tha samaritan woman met christ and firt first heard the message of his universal ax g ai pel jamb jacobs well mail Is till still pointed out at and is almost the only undisputed land mark of our lords lord s earthly life 1 11 it lia city 0 now a corm contains n a about inhabitants at abdus contains a small colony of about persons person who claim to be ba in the da dacej descendants Ced IS of the israelites israelite ot of the northern kingdom they accept only the five books ot of moses as being I 1 of adine darlne authority and hold mount lariat in to be the seat mar of their rellin religion III instead a lead of |