Bible lesson
Chapter 14: Shechem and Beth-el
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 14 covers, as the game’s chapter map shows them. Read the passages first in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, the text the game quotes: the game’s choices, maps and staging are reconstructions, not scripture. This page is not a church lesson and adds no doctrine.
Study notes
After Shechem defiles Dinah, her brothers answer Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, and Simeon and Levi kill every male in the city. God then sends Jacob to Bethel to build an altar, and later Rachel dies and is buried beside the road to Ephrath.
From Genesis 34:13 (KoS), Genesis 34:25 (KoS), Genesis 35:1 (KoS), Genesis 35:19 (KoS).
These notes and questions are original study helps written for this site, not scripture. The verses shown with each question are quoted from the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible.
- Chapter
- 14
- Title
- Shechem and Beth-el
- Bible passages
- Genesis 34:1–35:29
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Bethel and settle there, and make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from Esau your brother.”
Notice and discuss
Read each passage, then think about the question on your own or talk it over with others. No answers are collected.
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What does Hamor propose to Jacob’s family, and what does Shechem promise to give?
Hamor spoke with them. He said, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. You will live with us, and the land will be open before you. Settle, move about in it, and acquire holdings in it.” Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you tell me I will give.
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What does Jacob say to Simeon and Levi, and what does he say could happen to his household?
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. If they gather against me and strike me, I will be destroyed, I and my household.”
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What does God promise Jacob about nations, kings, and the land?
God said to him, “I am God Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, and a company of nations, will come from you, and kings will come from your body. The land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac I give to you, and to your offspring after you I give the land.”
Note · Translation Shaddai is kept as a name. See the glossary.
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Kingdoms of Scripture Bible (KoS). CC BY 4.0. Source: bible.kingdomsofscripture.com. Quotations are whole published verses, matched to the game’s chapter references.