Matthew Poole and continuators on John 4:5
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John4:5
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar , near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph .
The most valuable Interpreters agree, that this Sychar, is the City called Sechem; it was originally a parcel of a Field, bought by Iacob of Hamor, the Father of Shechem, Gen. 33.19. Ieroboam built the City there, called Shechem, 1 Kings 12.25. it was in the Lot of mount Ephraim; Iosephs bones were there buried, Ios. 24.32.
Iacob gave it to his Son Ioseph, as a parcel above his Brethren, Gen. 48.22. A parcel of ground, near unto which was this City called Sychar, anciently Sechem.
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