1 Samuel 31:10 - New Revised Standard Version They put his armor in the temple of Astarte; and they fastened his body to 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 and its villages, Ibleam and its villages, the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages (the third is Naphath).
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; but the Canaanites continued to live in that land.
The priest said, “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 will take that, take it, for there is none here except that one.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
all the valiant men set out, traveled all night long, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. They came to Jabesh and burned them there.
Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you. Direct your heart to the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”