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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 33:18 - 33:18
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Shalem - that is, “peace”; and the meaning may be that Jacob came into Canaan, arriving safe and sound at the city Shechem - a tribute to Him who had promised such a return (compare Gen 28:15). But most writers take Shalem as a proper name - a city of Shechem, and the site is marked by one of the little villages about two miles to the northeast. A little farther in the valley below Shechem “he bought a parcel of a field,” thus being the first of the patriarchs who became a proprietor of land in Canaan.