Beth Shean in Easton's Bible Dictionary
house of security or rest, a city which belonged to Manasseh
(1
Chr. 7:29), on the west of Jordan. The bodies of
Saul and his
sons were fastened to its walls. In Solomon's time
it gave its
name to a district (1 Kings 4:12). The name is found
in an
abridged form, Bethshan, in 1 Sam. 31:10, 12 and 2
Sam. 21:12.
It is on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, about
5 miles from
the Jordan, and 14 from the south end of the Lake of
Gennesaret.
After the Captivity it was called Scythopolis, i.e.,
"the city
of the Scythians," who about B.C. 640 came down from
the steppes
of Southern Russia and settled in different places
in Syria. It
is now called Beisan.
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