잇사갈 지파 땅이다.
사울(왕) 이 죽게되는 마지막 전투에서 블레셋 군대가 이곳에 진쳤다.
The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem ; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa .
David 이 노년에 새로 맞아들인 후궁
Abishag 이 이곳 출신이다.
So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel , and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.
He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah .”
Elisha 가 이곳에서 아들이 없던 여인을 위해 아들을 낳게 해줬다.
이후, 이 아들이 죽자 엘리사가 다시 살리는 일이 일어났다.
One day Elisha went to Shunem , where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.