Seti I quells a rebellion in the Beth-shean Valley, 1291 B.C.

SETI I QUELLS A REBELLION IN THE BETH-SHEAN VALLEY, 1291 B.C.

Though the mountainous regions of Canaan were being infiltrated by the pastoralists, the city states continued to thrive on the plain as illustrated by one phase in Seti I’s first campaign, documented in a stele discovered at Beth-shean: “The wretched enemy in the town of Hamath is assembling a great host of people to himself; he has seized the (Egyptian garrison) town of Beth-shean; then, in league with the men of Pehel, he has blockaded the ruler of Rehob.” Seti dispatched three brigades to reoccupy Beth-shean, to lift the siege of his loyal vassal at Rehob, and to secure the eastern town of Yanoam.A second stele bears the fragmentary account of `apîru renegades in Mt. Yarumta (probably the Jarmuth/Remeth of Issachar, Josh 19:21; 21:29, in the high plateau north of Beth-shean).

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