Shunem. In the plain of Esdraelon. The native place of Abishag (1 Kings 1:3).
great. wealthy, or. person of position (2 Samuel 19:32).
Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 4:8
2 Kings 4:8
8 And it fell on a day,b that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.