Place
Beth-shan
Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.
A city where the Jezreel valley meets the Jordan. The Philistines hung the bodies of Saul and his sons on its wall, and the men of Jabesh-gilead came by night and took them down.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Saul (King), 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 Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
- Jonathan, 2 Samuel 21:12
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).