====== Beth-shean (Beth-shan) ======

  * [[Places]]
  * BD Beth-shan

Directly north of [[Mount Gilboa]].  Located in eastern Israel.

//House of safety.// Three miles from the [[Jordan River]] on the edge of the plain of [[Jezreel]], on the road from [[Damascus]] to [[Egypt]], and to [[Jerusalem]] via [[Shechem]] (Joshua 17:11, 16; Judges 1:27; 1 Samuel 31:10, 12; 2 Samuel 21:12; 1 Kings. 4:12; 1 Chronicles 7:29). (BD)

  * Dead bodies of [[Saul]] and three of his sons([[Jonathan]] being one) fastened to the city wall (1 Samuel 31:8-13; 2 Samuel 21:12-14) (BD)