Beth Shan
A city of the tribe of Manasseh
1Ch 7:29; Jos 17:11
-Not subdued
Jud 1:27
-Bodies of Saul and his sons exposed in
1Sa 31:10,12
-Called BETH-SHAW
1Sa 31:10,12; 2Sa 21:12
-District of, under tribute to Solomon's commissariat
1Ki 4:12...
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(house of rest), or in Samuel, BETHSHAN, a city which
belonged to Manasseh, 1Ch 7:29 though within the limits of
Issachar Jos 17:11 and therefore on the west of Jordan. Comp.
1 Macc. 5:62. In later times it was called Scythopolis. 2
Macc. 12:29. The place is still known as Beisan. It lies in
the Ghor or Jordan valley, about twelve miles south ...
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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 Jerusa...
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BETHSHEAN or BETHSHAN ("house of quiet.") Now Beisan. A city
of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 7:29), though within Issachar's
boundary; 14 miles S. of the sea of Galilee, 4 miles W. of
and on the height over the Ghor or valley of the Jordan,
connected with the great plain of Jezreel, Esdraelon (Joshua
17:11). The Canaanites were not driven out thence...
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And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had
stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines
had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in
Gilboa:...
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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
Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there....
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And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they
fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan....
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beth-she'-an, beth'-shan (beth-shan, or [beth-she'an]; in
Apocrypha Baithsan or Bethsa): A city in the territory of
Issachar assigned to Manasseh, out of which the Canaanites
were not driven (Josh 17:11; Jdg 1:27); in the days of
Israel's strength they were put to taskwork (Jdg 1:28). They
doubtless were in league with the Philistines who...
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