Bible Location

Beth-shan

3 cross references · Modern-day map available

Beth-shan is an alternate form of Beth-shean, the strategic city at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley. It is important because it preserves the same major location under a different textual form. First appears in 1 Sam 31:10.1

Coordinates

32.50, 35.50

First appears

1 Sam 31:10

AI summary: Beth-shan on this page should be read with the better-known Beth-shean tradition. The variant form still points to the same strategically important city associated with the valley-to-Jordan corridor and with Saul's tragic end. The cross references present Beth-shan as a textual variant preserving the memory of that major eastern valley city.1

Latitude

32.50

Longitude

35.50

Bible references

3