Beth-shean

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Beth-shean
     house of security or rest, a city which belonged to Manasseh (1
     Chr. 7:29), on the west of Jordan. The bodies of Saul and his
     sons were fastened to its walls. In Solomon's time it gave its
     name to a district (1 Kings 4:12). The name is found in an
     abridged form, Bethshan, in 1 Sam. 31:10, 12 and 2 Sam. 21:12.


     It is on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, about 5 miles from
     the Jordan, and 14 from the south end of the Lake of Gennesaret.
     After the Captivity it was called Scythopolis, i.e., "the city
     of the Scythians," who about B.C. 640 came down from the steppes
     of Southern Russia and settled in different places in Syria. It
     is now called Beisan.