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Shunem

Shunem

32.6056°, 35.3343°

The Korean name is a draft derived from the Korean Bible and has not been reviewed yet.

Abarim Abilene Canaan Edom Jerusalem Samaria 1 Tyre Damascus Sodom Kadesh-barnea Gaza Ramoth-gilead Nain Ophrah 2 Jezreel 2 En-dor Shahazumah Kedesh 3 Kishion Chesulloth Shunem
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Where the Bible names it (9)

  1. Joshua 19:18 Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
  2. 1 Samuel 28:4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.
  3. 1 Kings 1:3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
  4. 1 Kings 2:17 He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
  5. 1 Kings 2:21 She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
  6. 2 Kings 4:8 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
  7. 2 Kings 4:11 One day he came there, and he turned into the room and lay there.
  8. 2 Kings 4:12 He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
  9. 2 Kings 4:25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

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