(Heb. Beth Shean, or Beth Shan, “place of rest”). A city within Issachar, but assigned to Manasses (Joshua 17:11; 1 Chronicles 7:29); later Scythopolis, now the village Beisan, three miles west of the Jordan. Because of its strength the Israelites could not take it at the time of the conquest (Joshua 17:16; Judges 1:27), and when the Philistines hung up the bodies of Saul and his three sons on its walls after the battle of Gelboe (2 Samuel 21:12), it was probably still in the hands of the Chanaanites. Under Solomon it was the center of an administrative district (1 Kings 4:12). About the beginning of the third century B. C. it was named Scythopolis, probably because Scythians had settled there. After paying tribute to the Ptolemies it passed under Syrian rule in 198 B. C., and in 107 fell into the hands of John Hyrcanus. Pompey took it from the Jews, and thenceforth it was a free city and one of the chief towns of Decapolis. In Christian times it became an episcopal and later a metropolitan see.<\/p>\n
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ROBINSON, Bibl. Researches (London, 1856), III, 326-332; Survey of Western Palest., Mem. II, 101-114; SCHÜRER, Jewish People (tr. New York, 1891), II, i, 1l0-113, RELAND, Palästina (Utrecht, 1714), 992, 998; GUËRIN, Samarie (Paris, 1874, 1875), I, 284-299. <\/p>\n
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(), a Graecized form (1Ma 5:52; 1Ma 12:40-41) of the name of the city BETH-SHAN SEE BETH-SHAN (q.v.).<\/p>\n
Bethsan (Heb. Beth Shean, or Beth Shan, “place of rest”). A city within Issachar, but assigned to Manasses (Joshua 17:11; 1 Chronicles 7:29); later Scythopolis, now the village Beisan, three miles west of the Jordan. Because of its strength the Israelites could not take it at the time of the conquest (Joshua 17:16; Judges 1:27), … Continue reading “Bethsan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}