The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
"Beth-shean ..."  (Joshua 17:11).  It was to the wall of this city that the bodies of Saul and his sons were fastened by the victorious Philistines following the battle on Mount Gilboa.  Later, it was the border town of Galilee and the chief town of the Decapolis.[9]