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Beth-shan

Beth-shan

32.5036°, 35.5031° Identification — certain

The Korean name is a draft derived from the Korean Bible and has not been reviewed yet.

Abarim Abilene Canaan Edom Jerusalem Samaria 1 Tyre Damascus Sodom Kadesh-barnea Gaza Ramoth-gilead Ramoth 1 Jarmuth 2 Mount Gilboa Mount Gilead Beer 2 Salim Hapharaim Shahazumah Beth-shan
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Where the Bible names it (8)

  1. Joshua 17:11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.
  2. Joshua 17:16 The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”
  3. Judges 1:27 Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
  4. 1 Samuel 31:10 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
  5. 1 Samuel 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 they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
  6. 2 Samuel 21:12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
  7. 1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
  8. 1 Chronicles 7:29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel.

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