Verse 5

So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 24:32 : 32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.
  • Gen 33:19 : 19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.
  • Gen 48:22 : 22 And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.
  • John 4:12 : 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?