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. 2Ki 4:12; Jos 19:18; 1Sa 28:4; 1Ki 1:3
a great woman: 2Sa 19:32; Job 1:3, Job 32:9; Luk 1:15
she constrained him: Heb. she laid hold on him, Gen 19:3; Jdg 19:20; Pro 7:21; Luk 14:23, Luk 24:29; Act 16:15