Place
Shunem
Home of the great woman who built the prophet's chamber on the wall; her son, given and raised, is one of Elisha's greatest signs.
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Where it is
- Region
- Jezreel Valley
- Kind of place
- Town
Shunem in Scripture
3 verses name it — all of them- Joshua 19:18And their border was unto Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
- 1 Samuel 28:4And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.
- 2 Kings 4:8And 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.