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shunem

shunem


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Shunem 
  two  resting-places,  a  little  village  in  the  tribe  of  Issachar, 
  to  the  north  of  Jezreel  and  south  of  Mount  Gilboa  (Josh.  19:18), 
  where  the  Philistines  encamped  when  they  came  against  Saul  (1 
  Sam.  28:4),  and  where  Elisha  was  hospitably  entertained  by  a 
  rich  woman  of  the  place  On  the  sudden  death  of  this  woman's  son 
  she  hastened  to  Carmel,  20  miles  distant  across  the  plain,  to 
  tell  Elisha,  and  to  bring  him  with  her  to  Shunem.  There  in  the 
  "prophet's  chamber,"  the  dead  child  lay;  and  Elisha  entering  it 
  shut  the  door  and  prayed  earnestly:  and  the  boy  was  restored  to 
  life  (2  Kings  4:8-37).  This  woman  afterwards  retired  during  the 
  famine  to  the  low  land  of  the  Philistines;  and  on  returning  a 
  few  years  afterwards,  found  her  house  and  fields  in  the 
  possession  of  a  stranger.  She  appealed  to  the  king  at  Samaria, 
  and  had  them  in  a  somewhat  remarkable  manner  restored  to  her 
  (comp.  2  Kings  8:1-6). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Shunem,  their  change;  their  sleep