Places
Shechem in Genesis 34
SHEE-kem
This place shows up in Genesis 34:2: “Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Genesis 34:2
“Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.”
What kids can learn
When you hear shechem in Genesis, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Genesis 34:2 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 34:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
thesonofHamorthetheoftheland,sawher.Hetookher,laywithher,andhumbledher.