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Shunem (shu'nem), two resting-places. A city in the territory of Issachar. Joshua 19:18. The Philistines encamped there before the great battle of Gilboa. 1 Samuel 28:4. David's nurse, Abishag, was of Shunem, 1 Kings 1:3, and it was the residence of the Shunammite woman who entertained Elisha. 2 Kings 4:8. It answers to the modern Sulem, on the southwestern slope of Little Hermon, about 53 miles north of Jerusalem.