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Shunem

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: S By: George A. Morrish

City in Issachar, near to which the Philistines encamped previous to the fight on Gilboa. Also where a Shunammite showed hospitality to Elisha (Josh. 19:18¹⁸And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, (Joshua 19:18); 1 Sam. 28:4⁴And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. (1 Samuel 28:4); 2 Kings 4:8⁸And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. (2 Kings 4:8)). Identified with Solam, 32° 36' N, 35° 20' E.

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