Levitical Cities for Levites in Manasseh between Mt. Gerizim (blessing) and Mt. Ebal (curse)

Abimelech’s coup happened there in Judges 9

1. A site of promise (Genesis 12)
2. A site of crisis and violence (Genesis 34)
3. A claimed ancestral foothold (Genesis 33 )
4. A pivot for Joseph’s descent (Genesis 37)
5. A burial that closes Israel’s long journey (Book of Joshua 24)
6. A covenant center between blessing and curse (Joshua 8, 24)
7. A laboratory for failed kingship ( Judges 9)
8. The birthplace of national schism (1 Kings 12)

First capital of northern tribes, before it was moved to Samaria/Sebaste

During the Babylonian Captivity (606 to 536 BCE), those Judahites who remained in the land of Israel reestablished the altar at Shechem to keep the Israelite worship system going when access to the Temple in Jerusalem was cut off. It became the main settlement of the Samaritans during the time of Christ for this reason.

After events of NT, in 72 CE, it was made a veteran colony named Neapolis. That name survives as Nablus, in the Occupied Territories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shechem#Classical_history