Shalem

12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.  13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.  14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.  15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.  16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.  17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.  18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.  19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.  20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael (Genesis 33:12-20).

     There are some interesting tidbits from these verses.  Shalem was a Canaanite city named after the god of Dusk.  So it was clearly a pagan city.  Equally interesting is that this may be the site of the future city of Jerusalem.  It is notable that Jacob created and altar here, presumably to worship Yahweh.  There would be constant struggle between the local inhabitants and Israel some of which was due to the differences in beliefs and some of which was just due to pure human cruelty.