Where is shunem?

How do you pronounce Shunem?

Shunem is pronounced "SHOO-nem", with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Who was the shunamite woman?

A person who lived in the northern region of Shunem

Was shunem as in the Shunamite woman within the borders of old testament israel?

Yes absolutely! Not too far from Tiberias and Mount Carmel.

Where did the shulamites live?

The Shulamite is a character in the Song of Solomon, a book in the Bible traditionally attributed to King Solomon. Although the exact location of Shulamite is not specified, it is often associated with the region of Shunem, which is located in northern Israel, near the Jezreel Valley. The term "Shulamite" itself suggests a connection to Shunem, and her portrayal in the text reflects the beauty and pastoral life of that area.

Where was the city of shunem?

It was a small town (not city), north of Yizre'el (Jezreel) and south of Mount Gilboa (Joshua ch.19). It was just east of what is now Afula. 32.6 north, 35.3 east.

Where in the bible is the story of the lady adding a room to her house for the prophet?

The prophet was Elisha. The lady lived in Shunem, thus she was called a Shunammite. the story is found in II Kings 4:8-37

When was elisha the prophet born?

There is some evidence that he sojourned in Mt Carmel and Gilgal (SouthEast Samaria. He attended to the needs of the people between the two locations (70+ miles apart), as evidenced by his assisting the Shunammite woman in Shunem, 20 miles east of Mt Carmel, 50 miles northwest of Gilgal. JackL

Who was called the o shulamite maiden?

The Shulamite maiden is a character in the biblical Song of Solomon who is known for her beauty and love story with King Solomon. She is often referred to as the "fairest among women" in the poetry of the Song.

What bible verses start with the letter s and where are the found?

Here are a few Bible verses that start with the letter "S": Psalm 23:1 - "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 46:1 - "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Romans 8:28 - "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God." These verses can be found in the Book of Psalms and the Book of Romans in the Bible.

Who is Mary Magdalene in Christianity?

She was Mary, probably of Magdala, in Galilee. That is the basic answer and the one we can initially draw from the Biblical text. However, a deeper dig into the text reveals that Solomon gave twenty cities to Hiram (I Kings 9:11). The Syrians believe they inherited these cities when, at times through history, Lebanon-Tyre and Syria (Biblical "Aram") were a merged entity. This lies behind some of the current tension on the Israeli-Syrian border. In Jesus' day, many Phoenicians were still living and trading in these cities. Magdala had no tower according to most archaeologists although there is some debate about this. There is a good reason why there was no tower at Magdala. Defensive turreted towers (from "Tyre" or "Tyrre") or the "Migdols" of the Hebrew language, were not necessary at Magdala on the shore of Lake Galilee. The commercial enterprise there was fresh-water fish in the lake for food. At Magdala, Tyrians or Phoenicians were not storing and protecting precious metals, jewels or textiles, employing (East India Company style, Robert Clive) soldiers and archers to protect the valuable merchandise from robbers. Gold, silver, diamonds, emeralds and other such-like precious commodities that Tyre (and Tarshish, the daughter of Tyre) normally trafficked were not stored at Magdala. The famous cedars of Lebanon, their sap used for embalming in Egypt's death industry and their wood used for construction and claddings for buildings, were traded down the Jordan-Dead Sea and Red Sea en route to Egypt. Along the way, myrrh and frankincense were purchased in Moab-Ammon (Jordan) and from orchardists on the terraced hills near Jerusalem for sale in Egypt.The historical relationship between Israel and Lebanon-Tyre-Byblos-Phoenicia was very complex and mostly fruitful and pleasant. During the era of Elijah and Elisha (circa 800 BC), the Israelites were ignoring their God "Jehovah". Thus God sent or commissioned Elijah and Elisha to two Phoenician cities: Zarepath-Sidon and Shunem-Israel (probably one Solomon gave to Hiram) when they had to flee Israelite kings (or Ahab and his wife Jezebel, anyway) who were trying to kill them. With Herod's father, i.e., "Herod the Great", having tried to kill Jesus and Herod ''Junior'' himself having executed John the Baptist, Jesus followed Elijah's and Elisha's examples eight centuries earlier and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon and met a Syro-Phoenician woman somewhere near Tyre. Elijah and Elisha had famously resurrected the dead sons of those two Phoenician women they had stayed with in 800 BC. Jesus cast out a demon from the Syro-Phoenician woman's daughter which was tantamount to restoring life to this woman (and her mother). The daughter, probably, was Mary Magdalene because Mark noted that Mary had been devil-possessed. A logical conclusion from this, although people have to decide if they believe these are the correct historical facts, is that just as two Jewish prophets ("Elijah and Elisha") fleeing the Israelite kings then resurrected the sons of two Phoenician women, i.e, two ''Magdalenes'' from Sidon and Shunem; so too a Jewish prophet (and "Son of God"), i.e., Jesus or Yeshua (as in El-yeshua = Elisha) resurrected and was first seen in the resurrected state by a Phoenician woman's daughter ("Mary the Magdalene"). Thus as far as "Christianity" is concerned, the Resurrection of Jesus is virtually proven by Jesus' deliberate appearance to this Phoenician woman; not to His own Mother as one might expect of a good obedient religious Jewish son; nor to any of His trusted disciples. It is simply too ridiculous to suggest the whole thing is a Jewish fable ("cunning or otherwise"). The '''Gospel''' records of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus must therefore be historical fact. That seems to be the only realistic conclusion one can take from the fact that a whole lot of Jewish people (at least 500 in I Corinthians 15:6) then risked life and limb to spread this message. However, plenty of people risk life and limb for many other causes. The virtually unbelievable idea that a Phoenician woman (Mary Magdalene) would be selected to be the first person to actually, or physically, witness the resurrected Jesus makes the event almost certainly to be true. It also means that as a Man described as "The Last Adam" (i.e., Jesus) stood in a garden with a woman (Mary Magdalene) whom we might describe as "The Last Eve", to receive GOOD NEWS, we are reminded that Adam and Eve had to listen to the awful message brought to them about the consequences of eating of the Tree of Good and Evil Knowledge or the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (The tree of science and knowledge). Thus Christianity, through the Mary Magdalene enigma, gives a great and truly realistic hope, not absolute proof else where is faith, to those with faith living in a world obviously failing to improve and only getting far worse with all the science and knowledge we have now 6000 years after the Fall. The Bible's resurrection account especially with this enigmatic involvement of Mary the Magdalene gives great hope that Jesus is returning to take control and demonstrate the good government Isaiah 9:6-7 speaks of.To avoid deception, one should conclude with the note that Satan will attempt to land an imposter-christ (or antichrist, 666) on the world. That person will deceive people into believing that he is the Messiah of Israel. Using the powers of his father the "old serpent", Satan himself, this 'antichrist' whose name adds to six hundred and sixty six when transliterated into the Hebrew language from his 'latin-Roman' original, will rig world events to make it look like he has brought peace. Of course much, but not all, of the non-peace in the world today has some satanic ''influence'' behind it and that negative influence will be silenced for that deceptive purpose. It will be a very clever deception.AnswerMary Magdalene was the woman from whom Jesus had driven out seven demons. After that, she became a disciple (Luke 8:2) but was not one of the Twelve Disciples, eleven of whom would later become Apostles. Mary Magdalene is not the Mary that was the sister to Martha and Lazarus living in Bethany. Mary Magdalene was the first person to see Jesus at the empty tomb according to John 20:11-18.Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. There is extra Biblical evidence that she became a missionary to Tarshish (Spain, Britain), quite possibly with Joseph of Arimathea. If they had married, a possibility, their travels may have provided the basis of legends that "Joseph and Mary" travelled to England. But that, if at all true, would have been these two people not Jesus Mother and Father-in-law Joseph.

Did Mary Magdalene have brothers and sisters?

Traditionally, Mary Magdelene is identified with the Mary who had a brother, Lazarus; and a sister, Martha. The family lived in a place called Bethany. However, The Bible does not specify that this is the same Mary.Dr. S. S. Smalley, in his contribution to The New Bible Dictionary, edited by Dr. J. D. Douglas, maintains that John, in his Gospel "could not have been unaware of the real identity of the two Marys [of Magdala & of Bethany], or have been content to confuse the readers." He stated that there was "no justifcation" to saying that Mary Magdeline & Mary of Bethany were the same.Whereas Christ had cast seven demons out of Mary Magdalene, nothing indicates that she had or didn't have siblings. She was in the company of those who attended to Christ's burial & subsequently present at His resurrection.ANSWERSurnames like "of Nazareth", "the Baptist", "Bar Jonah", "Barabbas", "of Tarsus" etc., clearly indicated origins. "Mary of Bethany" is obviously a completely different person to Mary Magdalene or Mary of Migdol-Tyre which is the meaning of her name. Actually, Mary Magdalene is most likely the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman who asked Jesus to cast out a devil from her daughter. It seems the New Testament writers were embarrassed that a Phoenician woman was first to witness the Resurrection. The Romans and Greeks hated the Phoenicians so much that tempers would rise just by mentioning them. Phoenicians were held responsible for starting the Trojan war and the Romans had been terrified of them during the three Punic Wars. The Tyrians or Dorians, who fled the Assyrians, swarmed over Greece in the 7th century BC along with many Jewish or Ionian refugees (emigres). So Mary the Tyrian or Phoenician was not an ideal person to be the first to eye-witness the Resurrected Christ. Yet Jesus must have organised things to happen like that. This is the mystery. It is solved by recognising the connections with Elijah and Elisha's resurrections of the two Phoenician womens sons (in Shunem and Zarapeth). Just as they resurrected two Phoenician women's sons so the Son of God's resurrection was witnessed by a Phoenician woman's daughter. It is a fairly simple code to show the resurrection of Jesus is true.Mary Magdalene thus stands for the woman in the place where the bad news of the Garden of Eden (to Adam and his Eve) was rescinded, turned around (repented), over-turned etc. Just as the First Adam stood with his woman to hear the bad news resulting from the 'consumption' of the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil", so Jesus whom Paul described as the "Last Adam" stood with a woman to represent as it were the "Last Eve". The situation of Genesis 3 was paralleled by the situation recorded in the Gospels and quite deliberately so. Of course few people, even in churches, accept this sort of analysis because they do not accept the Creation Account of Genesis which demands we believe in a first man and first woman from whom we are all descended. We are not descended from Lucy the Chimp of Ethiopia in 1 million BC.One assumes on the basis of normal events that Mary Magdalene did have siblings. It's more unlikely that she was an 'only child' - but she might have been. There are more important things to consider.

What were the important events of Elisha's life?

Elisha Eli'sha (God his salvation), son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah; the attendant and disciple of Elijan, and subsequently his successor as prophet of the kingdom of Israel. The earliest mention of his name is in the command to Elijah in the cave at Horeb. 1 Kin 19:16, 17 (b.c. about 900.) Elijah sets forth to obey the command, and comes upon his successor engaged in ploughing. He crosses to him and throws over his shoulders the rough mantle-a token at once of investiture with the prophet's office and of adoption as a son. Elisha delayed merely to give the farewell kiss to his father and mother and preside at a parting feast with his people, and then followed the great prophet on his northward road. We hear nothing more of Elisha for eight years, until the translation of his master, when he reappears, to become the most prominent figure in the history of his country during the rest of his long life.In almost every respect Elisha presents the most complete contrast to Elijah. Elijah was a true Bedouin child of the desert. If he enters a city it is only to deliver his message of fire and be gone. Elisha, on the other hand, is a civilized man, an inhabitant of cities. His dress was the ordinary garment of an Israelite, the beged, probably similar in form to the long abbeyeh of the modern Syrians. 2 Kin 2:12 His hair was worn trimmed behind, in contrast to the disordered locks of Elijah, and he used a walking-staff, 2 Kin 4:29 of the kind ordinarily carried by grave or aged citizens. Zech 8:4 After the departure of his master, Elisha returned to dwell at Jericho, 2 Kin 2:18 where he miraculously purified the springs. We next meet with Elisha at Bethel, in the heart of the country, on his way from Jericho to Mount Carmel. 2 Kin 2:23 The mocking children, Elisha's curse and the catastrophe which followed are familiar to all. Later he extricates Jehoram king of Israel, and the kings of Judah and Edom, from their difficulty in the campaign against Moab arising from want of water. 2 Kin 3:4-27 Then he multiplies the widow's oil. 2 Kin 4:5 The next occurrence is at Shunem, where he is hospitably entertained by a woman of substance, whose son dies, and is brought to life again by Elisha. 2 Kin 4:8-37 Then at Gilgal he purifies the deadly pottage, 2 Kin 4:38-41 and multiplies the loaves. 2 Kin 4:42-44 The simple records of these domestic incidents amongst the sons of the prophets are now interrupted by an occurrence of a more important character. 2 Kin 5:1-27 The chief captain of the army of Syria, Naaman, is attacked with leprosy, and is sent by an Israelite maid to the prophet Elisha, who directs him to dip seven times in the Jordan, which he does and is healed, 2 Kin 5:1-14 while Naaman's servant, Gehazi, he strikes with leprosy for his unfaithfulness. 2 Kin 5:20-27 Again the scene changes. It is probably at Jericho that Elisha causes the iron axe to swim. 2 Kin 6:1-7 A band of Syrian marauders are sent to seize him, but are struck blind, and he misleads them to Samaria, where they find themselves int he presence of the Israelite king and his troops. 2 Kin 6:8-23 During the famine in Samaria, 2 Kin 6:24-33 he prophesied incredible plenty, 2 Kin 7:1-2 which was soon fulfilled. 2 Kin 7:3-20 We next find the prophet at Damascus. Benhadad the king is sick, and sends to Elisha by Hazael to know the result. Elisha prophesies the king's death, and announces to Hazael that he is to succeed to the throne. 2 Kin 8:7, 15 Finally this prophet of God, after having filled the position for sixty years, is found on his death-bed in his own house. 2 Kin 13:14-19 The power of the prophet, however, does not terminate with his death. Even in the tomb he restores the dead to life. 2 Kin 13:21-Smith's Bible Dictionary