Beth-shan
Other names: Beth-shean
Located in: West Manasseh
Location: 32.50° N, 35.50° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)
Mentioned in 3 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Beth-shan is mentioned
1 Samuel 31:10–12
10 They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
11 When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
Read in context2 Samuel 21:11–12
11 When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
12 he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
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