Bible Location
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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
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
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.