To Shunnam a city in Issachar, near Mount Carmel, Joshua 19:17,18, whither the prophet frequently went. Was a great woman; for estate, or birth and quality. See Genesis 24:35 1 Samuel 25:2. She constrained him, by her importunate desire. To eat bread; to take his repast there.
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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.