¹⁶ But the children of Joseph said, “The mountain country is not enough for us; and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have ^(A)chariots of iron, both those who are of Beth Shean and its towns and those who are ^(B)of the Valley of Jezreel.”

Incomplete Conquest of the Land

^27 (A)However, Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its villages, or ^(B)Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of ^(C)Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.

^10 (A)Then they put his armor in the temple of the ^(B)Ashtoreths, and ^(C)they fastened his body to the wall of ^(D)Beth^[a] Shan.

¹² Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of ^(A)Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of ^[a]Beth Shan, where the ^(B)Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa.

¹² Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth Shean, which is beside Zaretan below Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as the other side of Jokneam;