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Shamir
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Shamir in the Bible Dictionary
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1. A city in the mountains of Judah
Josh 15:48
48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
Joshua 15:48 - 2. A city on Mount Ephraim
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The home and burial place of Tola, one of Israel’s judges (leaders)
Judg 10:1, 2
1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Judges 10:12 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Judges 10:2 -
3. Son of Michah, a Levite
1 Chr 24:24
24 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.
1 Chronicles 24:24
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
