Shamir

Shamir appears twice in Scripture — once as a Judah hill country town (Joshua 15:48) and more notably as the home and burial place of the judge Tola: "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. And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir" (Judges 10:1-2). Following Abimelech's bloody reign at Shechem, Tola's long peaceful judgeship at Shamir gave Israel a rare two-decade respite before the Ammonite oppression that summoned Jephthah. The site is unidentified.