Bible Location
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Shimron was a Canaanite city later included in Zebulun's inheritance. It is important because it appears in both the conquest memory and the settled tribal map. First appears in Josh 11:1.1
AI summary: Shimron matters because a city once belonging to the Canaanite order is later absorbed into Israel's territorial memory. The references connect it to the older northern powers and then to Zebulun's settled inheritance. The cross references present Shimron as a northern city of conquest and incorporation.1
Watch-post, an ancient city of the Canaanites; with its villages, allotted to Zebulun (Josh. 19:15); now probably Semunieh, on the northern edge of the plain of Esdraelon, 5 miles west of Nazareth. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.