Shunem
Where Shunem sits on the map, and the 9 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Sulam
- Coordinates
- 32.6056, 35.3343
- Mentions
- 9 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
9 verses, in biblical order.
Joshua
- Joshua 19:18
And his inheritance was: Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 28:4
And the Philistines gathered together, and they arrived and made camp at Shunem. Then Saul also gathered all of Israel, and he arrived at Gilboa.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 1:3
And so they sought a beautiful young woman in all the parts of Israel. And they found Abishag, a Shunammite, and they led her to the king.
- 1 Kings 2:17
And he said: “I beg that you may speak to king Solomon, for he is not able to refuse anything to you, so that he may give Abishag the Shunammite to me as wife.”
- 1 Kings 2:21
And she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah, your brother, as wife.”
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 4:8
Now it happened that, on a certain day, Elisha passed by Shunem. And there was a great woman there, who took him to eat bread. And since he frequently passed by there, he turned aside to her house, so that he might eat bread.
- 2 Kings 4:11
Then it happened that, on a certain day, arriving, he turned aside into the upper room, and he rested there.
- 2 Kings 4:12
And he said to his servant Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, and she stood before him,
- 2 Kings 4:25
And so she set out. And she came to the man of God, on mount Carmel. And when the man of God had seen her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi: “Behold, it is that Shunammite woman.