Biblical places
Beth-shan
Where the Philistines hung the bodies of Saul and his sons on the city wall (1 Samuel 31). A strategic site where the Jordan and Jezreel Valleys meet, preserved today as the Beit She'an National Park.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Beit She'an (Tel Beit She'an)
- 32.4975, 35.5006
Wikidata and Wikipedia coordinates are effectively identical; there is no disagreement over the location.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
1 Samuel 31:10
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
2 Samuel 21:12
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
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 Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.