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.