SHUNEM, or Sunam, a City belonging to the Tribe of Issachar. Josh. xix. 18. The Philistines encamped at Shunem, in the great Field or Plain; and King Saul encamped 1 Sam. xxviii. 4.at Gilboa. Eusebius places Shunem, or Sulem, five Miles from Tabor, towards the South. Elsewhere he says, that there is a Place call’d Sanim, in Acrabatene, in the Neighbourhood of Sebaste, or Samaria.
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