Beth-shean
    house of security or rest, a city which belonged to Manasseh (1
    Chr. 7:29), on the west of Jordan. The bodies of Saul and his
    sons were fastened to its walls. In Solomon's time it gave its
    name to a district (1 Kings 4:12). The name is found in an
    abridged form, Bethshan, in 1 Sam. 31:10, 12 and 2 Sam. 21:12.
    It is on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, about 5 miles from
    the Jordan, and 14 from the south end of the Lake of Gennesaret.
    After the Captivity it was called Scythopolis, i.e., "the city
    of the Scythians," who about B.C. 640 came down from the steppes
    of Southern Russia and settled in different places in Syria. It
    is now called Beisan.