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.
Ver. 5. Jacob gave to his son Joseph] Having first won it with "his sword and his bow," Genesis 48:22; that is, with his prayer and supplication (saith the Chaldee paraphrast); which, as Saul's sword and Jonathan's bow, never return empty, 2 Samuel 1:22 .