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Judges 8:17
He also tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
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Judges 8:8
He went from there to Penuel and asked the same thing from them. The men of Penuel answered just as the men of Succoth had answered.
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Judges 9:45-49
So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.When all the lords of the Tower of Shechem heard, they entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.Then it was reported to Abimelech that all the lords of the Tower of Shechem had gathered together.So Abimelech and all the people who were with him went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his ax in his hand and cut a branch from the trees. He picked up the branch, put it on his shoulder, and said to the people who were with him,“ Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”Each person also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire around the people, and all the people in the Tower of Shechem died— about 1,000 men and women.
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Genesis 32:30-31
Jacob then named the place Peniel,“ For I have seen God face to face,” he said,“ and I have been delivered.”The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel— limping because of his hip.
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1 Kings 15 17
Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to deny anyone access to Judah’s King Asa.
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1 Kings 12 1
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.
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1 Kings 16 24
then he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for 150 pounds of silver, and he built up the hill. He named the city he built Samaria based on the name Shemer, the owner of the hill.
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1 Kings 9 15
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
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2 Chronicles 11 5-2 Chronicles 11 12
Rehoboam stayed in Jerusalem, and he fortified cities in Judah.He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.He strengthened their fortifications and put leaders in them with supplies of food, oil, and wine.He also put large shields and spears in each and every city to make them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin were his.
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Judges 9:1
Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and spoke to them and to all his maternal grandfather’s clan, saying,
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1 Kings 9 17-1 Kings 9 18
Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,