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actually took the Shulammite ior his wife. In this
case. \ ~ r may venture to suppose that for 'Sziamah
the Ammonitesr' (n.>$vn, . . ~.
I li. 14z13r) we should read
. Naamah the Shunammite' (n,?!p>!. ' Abirhag' (I K.
Is ri 2 17 %r/), like Abital, is no real name. See
SULUMOX. 8 2, near end, and article in /QK, referred
to above.
SHUMATHITE (~nyu), r Ch.2~~.
See SHOBAL.
(n*pl>Lzi. 1 K. I 2r5 2 ., 2 K.
SH~AMIYI~
4 ; n'p!s, I K. 2 *,j: z K. 4 +). A gentilic
ffem.), , , a .. ~~lied to Abirhae - and to the horters of Elirha.
both women of SHUNEM [pv.].
e in Kio~r invrriablyh*~ .r"p~"[~11111,11pPPPm$, m a"LrL5,
nr vouunvinr. .~ CD . ~ ~u~~\ruire. . and. . ior ~ur. and Yer. xe
snunem.
SHUXEM (D>ld, in Josh. COYN&N [Bl. -M 1.41.
CYNHM [!-I); in IS. CWMlrN [RI,]. rWNbMbN [A];
in 2 K. COYMAN [R], CWMAN [BaWL]. CIWNAM
[A*"'"], CI~MAM [A']: onEur, nndJw, srebelow). I. A
place in Israehar, gro"pd with Jezreel and Che$"ll~th
(Josh. 1918). and mentioned in the Egyptian listsvmong
the places in Pvlestine which submitted to Thotmes 111.
and Sh~shenk (RPlal 5 +6 ; Ar. u. Eur. 170). Shunem
must be the mod. SPlmr. which is a small village,
with beautiful fruit- and flower-gardens, well situated on
the SW, slope of the NeM D+l (Little Hermon), and
Iwking over the whole plain as far ;ui Carmel. Two
natives of Shunem are specidly mentioned-viz.,
hbirhag, David's 'companion' (I K. 1s 2 17*1. f 1.
the 'great woman' who entertained Elirha (2 K.
4 8z); many add. as a third, the 'Shulnmmite' of
Cooticlen. We also Learn from 1 S.28, that the
, I'hili~tines,' in the time of Saul, pitched thcir tents
in Shunem, over against the Israelites on Gilboa ( I S.
2R~l. ion Elisha's miracle at Shunem and its NT
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parallel, see Narx.)
2. If we may hold that the scene of Sauli lnrt struggle
with the Philirfiner, and alro that of Elisha's prophetic
rniniirry, have been mistaken by the editor or editors
who brought the texts of I S. 28 and 2 K. 4 into their
present form, there was a second Shunem in the Segeb.
This is, of cotwe, not a mere isolated theory, hut a
part of a general theory that much of the OT has been
recast, on the hsis of a corrupt text, and under
the influence of wrong theories of the geography and
(partly) the histnrg of ancient Israel. On this nvarter,
so far ar it concerns Shunem, see SAUL, 4bf; Pxh
PHECY. 8 5,f ' Shunem' is probably the place called
a Beth-rhao' in I S. 31 lo--that is to say, perhaps the
or-,~hsn of I S. 30p (- ASHAN), and 'Mt. Carmel'
to which the 'era, " woman' rode, and where Klirha
dwclr, was Mt. Jerahmeel. If so. it becomes very possible
that Ablrhag 'the Shunammire' wrta a native of the
Shunem in the Negeb ; indeed, Uavid'sclore connection
Thur, to the equivalent f~rms Asshiir. Arhhiir, and
with the Segeb makes this in itself highly probable.
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Geshiir. we mav now add a fourth ' Shilr.' The view
It is rcma*ahlc that Em. (OS29456, s.y. vouhr?) and 1:'. bared upen of I S. 27 8, held formerly by Wellru.
Sunmr). who ray that thc Issachame locd~ty hausen i TAS 97) and still asrented to by H. P. Smith
("S1iZit.
war in t en hme . called Sulern, do not identify it with the (Sam. 133). that Shilr originally meant the wall (or
Shllnem oi Elirha's honers. Thir Lhq refer lo ne
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