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Reference: Bethshan, Bethshean

Morish

Beth'-shan, Beth-she'an

City of Manasseh west of the Jordan, though situate in Issachar, Jos 17:11,16; 1Ch 7:29; from which the Canaanites were not driven out. Jg 1:27. In the days of Saul the Philistines appear to have had possession of the town, for on their finding the dead body of Saul it was here that they hung it on the wall. 1Sa 31:10,12; 2Sa 21:12. In the time of Solomon Beth-shean was under the charge of one of his commissariat officers. 1Ki 4:12. 1, is identified with Beisan, 32 30' N, 35 30' E. It must have been a place of note, from the extent of the ruins, which consist of black volcanic basalt. It is doubtless on the same spot as SCYTHOPOLIS, mentioned in 2 Mac. 12:29, and which was one of the ten cities of Decapolis.

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Josh 17:11

And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Beth-shean and its dependent villages, and Ibleam and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of En-Dor and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its dependent villages, the three hilly regions.

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Josh 17:16

And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country will not be enough for us; and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, those that are of Beth-shean and its dependent villages, and those that are in the valley of Jizreel.

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Judg 1:27

Manas'seh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'an and its villages, or Ta'a-nach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megid'do and its villages; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

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1 Sam 31:10

And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

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1 Sam 31:12

all the valiant men arose and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

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1 Kgs 4:12

Baana the son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zaretan beneath Jizreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, as far as beyond Jokneam.

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