Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean, Ibleam, and the inhabitants of Dor with their surrounding villages; the inhabitants of En-dor, Taanach, and Megiddo #– #the three cities of Naphath #– #with their surrounding villages.
1 Samuel 31:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then they put his armour in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they put Saul's armor in the house of the Ashtaroth [the idols representing the female deities Ashtoreth and Asherah], and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. American Standard Version (1901) And they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. Common English Bible They put Saul’s armor in the temple of Astarte, and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan. Catholic Public Domain Version And they placed his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth. But his body they suspended on the wall of Bethshan. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they put his armour in the temple of Astaroth: but his body they hung on the wall of Bethsan. |
Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean, Ibleam, and the inhabitants of Dor with their surrounding villages; the inhabitants of En-dor, Taanach, and Megiddo #– #the three cities of Naphath #– #with their surrounding villages.
At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-shean and Taanach and their surrounding villages, or the residents of Dor, Ibleam, and Megiddo and their surrounding villages; the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.
The priest replied, ‘The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there isn’t another one here.’ ‘There’s none like it! ’ David said. ‘Give it to me.’
all their brave men set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
Samuel told them, ‘If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, set your hearts on the Lord, and worship only him. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.’