1 Kings 4:12

God's Word

Baana, son of Ahilud, had Taanach, Megiddo, and all of Beth Shean. (This was near Zarethan, below Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah and over to Jokmeam.)

Cross References

1 Kings 18:46

The Lord’s power was on Elijah. He hiked up his robe and ran ahead of Ahab until they came to Jezreel.

1 Kings 19:16

Anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, as king of Israel. And anoint Elisha, son of Shaphat, from Abel Meholah as prophet to take your place.

1 Kings 7:46

The king cast them in foundries in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.

1 Chronicles 6:68

Jokmeam with its pastureland, Beth Horon with its pastureland,

Joshua 12:22

the king of Kedesh, the king of Jokneam in Carmel,

Joshua 17:11

In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh possessed Beth Shean and Ibleam with their villages and the people living in Dor, En Dor, Taanach, and Megiddo and their villages. The last three are on mountain ridges.

Joshua 3:16

the water, the water stopped flowing from upstream. The water rose up like a dam as far away as the city of Adam near Zarethan. The water flowing down toward the Sea of the Plains (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. Then the people crossed from the east side ⌞of the Jordan River⌟ directly opposite Jericho.

Judges 5:19

Kings came and fought. Then the kings of Canaan fought. They fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. But they didn’t carry off any rich loot.

Judges 7:22

The 300 men kept on blowing their rams’ horns, and the Lord caused the whole camp of Midian to fight among themselves. They fled as far as Beth Shittah, toward Zererah, and as far as the bank of the stream at Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

1 Samuel 18:19

But when the time came to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was married to Adriel from Meholah.

1 Samuel 31:10

They put his armor in the temple of their goddesses—the Asherahs—and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.

1 Samuel 31:12

all the fighting men marched all night and took the dead bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan. They came back to Jabesh and burned the bodies there.