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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Beth-shean
After Saul died on Gilboa, the Philistines hung his body and his sons' bodies on the walls of this city. Beth-shean was Canaanite, in Manasseh's land. It stood where the Jezreel and Jordan valleys meet.
After Saul died on Gilboa, the Philistines hung his body and his sons' bodies on the walls of this city. Beth-shean was Canaanite, in Manasseh's land. It stood where the Jezreel and Jordan valleys meet.
Beth-shean was a Canaanite city belonging to Manasseh's territory at the junction of the Jezreel and Jordan valleys; after Saul's death in battle on nearby Gilboa, the Philistines hung his body and his sons' bodies on its walls until the men of Jabesh-gilead recovered them by night. Excavations at Tel Beth-shean uncovered an Egyptian garrison town from the New Kingdom period, including monumental stelae of pharaohs Seti I and Ramesses II describing campaigns to relieve the city, confirming Egypt's direct control over the site centuries before Saul's reign.
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- Joshua 17:11
- Joshua 17:16
- Judges 1:27
- 1 Samuel 31:10
- 1 Samuel 31:12
- 2 Samuel 21:12
- 1 Kings 4:12
- 1 Chronicles 7:29
