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2 Kings 4:8

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it fell on: Heb. there was, 2 Kings 4:11, 2 Kings 4:18

Shunem: This city was situated in the tribe of Issachar, five miles south from mount Tabor, according to Eusebius; and is probably the place which he calls Sanim, in Acrabatene, in the neighbourhood of Samaria or Sebaste. 2 Kings 4:12; Joshua 19:18; 1 Samuel 28:4; 1 Kings 1:3

a great woman: 2 Samuel 19:32; Job 1:3, Job 32:9; Luke 1:15

she constrained him: Heb. she laid hold on him, Genesis 19:3; Judges 19:20; Proverbs 7:21; Luke 14:23, Luke 24:29; Acts 16:15

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