BETHSAN, or BETHSEAN, in Ancient Geography, a town of Samaria, in the half-tribe of Manasseh, on the borders of Galilee, about half a league from Jordan, and having a considerable part of its territory in the Peræa. It was afterwards called Scythopolis; and was distant from Tiberias, on the lake Genesareth, 120 stadia, or fifteen miles; and from Jerusalem 600 stadia, or seventy-five miles. It was the largest city of the Decapolis.