Joshua 17:11

Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was also given several towns including Beth Shean, Ibleam, Dor, Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo with their dependent villages. The tribe held key cities beyond its main borders.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Chr 7:29And along the borders of Manasseh were Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.
• 2 Kgs 9:27When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
• Judg 1:27At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
• Judg 5:19Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
• Josh 12:23the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
• 1 Sam 28:7Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” “There is a medium at Endor,” his servants replied.
• Josh 11:2to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
• Ps 83:10who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
• 1 Kgs 9:15This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
• 1 Kgs 4:11–12Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);
• 1 Sam 31:10They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
• Josh 12:21the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
• Zech 12:11On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
• 1 Chr 6:70And from the half-tribe of Manasseh the remaining clans of the Kohathites were given Aner and Bileam, together with their pasturelands.
• 2 Kgs 23:29–30At the end of Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
• 2 Chr 35:22Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo.
• 1 Sam 31:12all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
• Josh 16:9along with all the cities and villages set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of Manasseh.

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