Shion

Shion appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of Issachar's tribal allotment: "Their territory included Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez, And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez" (Joshua 19:18-21). The town occupied the fertile Jezreel Valley and the lower Galilee plain between Mount Tabor and the Carmel range — the agricultural breadbasket of ancient Israel. Shion is generally identified with Khirbet Sha'in about three miles east of Mount Tabor, where Iron Age pottery confirms early Israelite settlement.