¹⁶ The people of Joseph replied, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron,^(A) both those in Beth Shan^(B) and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”^(C)

²⁷ But Manasseh did not^(A) drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor^(B) or Ibleam^(C) or Megiddo^(D) and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites^(E) were determined to live in that land.

¹⁰ They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths^(A) and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.^(B)

¹² he went and took the bones of Saul^(A) and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead.^(B) (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan,^(C) where the Philistines had hung^(D) them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)^(E)

²⁹ Along the borders of Manasseh were Beth Shan,^(A) Taanach, Megiddo and Dor,^(B) together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.