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Beth-Shean: Called Beth-Shaw

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1 Samuel 31:10, 12 They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan. / all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
2 Samuel 21:12 he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.