Its boundaries included the following towns: Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem,
Parallel translations
- WEB Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
- KJV And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
- BSB Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
- NKJV And their territory went to Jezreel, and included Chesulloth, Shunem,
- NASB Their territory was to Jezreel and included Chesulloth, Shunem,
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Quick answer
Issachar's territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, and Shunem. The listing of its cities begins.
Overview
The catalog of Issachar's towns opens with Jezreel, a place of great significance in later biblical history, and Shunem, known from accounts in the books of Kings. These cities in the fertile valley made up the heart of Issachar's inheritance. The naming of such places anchors the tribe's portion in real terrain that would feature in God's ongoing dealings with Israel.
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Cross-references · 12
- 1 Sam 28:4The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.
- 2 Kgs 4:8One 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.
- 2 Kgs 4:12He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
- 2 Kgs 8:29King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
- 2 Kgs 9:30When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
- 1 Kgs 21:15–16When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
- 1 Kgs 2:17He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
- 1 Kgs 21:1After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
- 1 Kgs 1:3So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
- 1 Kgs 2:21She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
- Hos 1:4–5Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
- 2 Kgs 9:15but king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.”
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