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  • Beth-shean, which is also called Scythopolis, (see the LXX in Judges 1: 27), and do always resolve it to stand in a different condition from the other cities of the land of Israel.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Jericho, but at a great distance from either; for the finding out of which, we are to consider what is intimated, 1 Kings 4: 12: "And all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to

    The Holy Bible: Webster's Bible Anonymous 1833

  • Solomon to wife: 12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

  • "Neither did Manasses drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, which is

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • But in latitude [from Ephraim] it reacheth to Beth-shean, which is now called Scythopolis. "

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Really I'm sure she and her campaign would love to take the shean off Gore with HER energy plan etc ... but she's got some other policy BAGGAGE that really needs looking into, and I don't think I'm the only one that thinks that way.

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  • "Resh Lachish saith, If Paradise be in the land of Israel, Beth-shean is the gate of it: if it be in Arabia, Beth-geram is the gate of it: if among the rivers, Damascus."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • We neither dare, nor indeed can, number up all the cities of Decapolis of the same condition with Beth-shean: yet the Jerusalem Talmudists fix and rank these three under the same condition with it, in those words which were alleged before, Caphar Carnaim excepted, of which afterward.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The Gloss is, "The fruits of Beth-shean were the sweetest of all in the land of Israel."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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