Biblical places
Shunem
Home of the Shunammite woman who often hosted Elisha, whose son the prophet raised from death (2 Kings 4). The modern village of Sulam preserves the ancient name.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- High
- Sulam (Solem)
- 32.6056, 35.3344
The place name has continued into modern times, leaving little disagreement over its identification.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Joshua 19:18
And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
1 Samuel 28:4
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
2 Kings 4:8
And 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.