Shamir

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. A city in the mountains of Judah

• Joshua 15:48 These were in the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

2. A city on Mount Ephraim

The home and burial place of Tola, one of Israel' s judges (leaders)

• Judges 10:1–2 After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.

3. Son of Michah, a Levite

• 1 Chronicles 24:24 From the sons of Uzziel: Micah; from the sons of Micah: Shamir.