[Berosus]

There was a Scythian garrison at Beth-Shan in northern Israel during the seventh century B.C. Because of it, the Greeks called Beth-Shan “Scythopolis” for a while. At first the Scythians worked for the Assyrians, but in 613 B.C. they switched sides, teaming up with the Babylonians and Medes to burn down Nineveh a year later. Therefore it doesn’t surprise me that the Babylonians got hold of some Scythian arrowheads to use against Jerusalem.

[SunkenCiv]

One of *those* topics. Thanks Berosus for that comment, my mind didn't get enough sleep and needed a jog.

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• Theses For The Reconstruction Of Ancient History | Immanuel Velikovsky | 1945
  178. Beth-Shan-Scythopolis was the city where Seti met the vanguard of the Scythians. He occupied the city, as he reported on his stela found there.
  179. Seti built a fortress on the Oronteg, at Tell Nebi Mend; it is Riblah of the Scriptures.
  180. Seti participated in the war in the valley of the Euphrates on the side of Assurbanipal and against Nabopolassar. The Egyptian army referred to by Nabopolassar in his annals was that of Seti.
  181. Greek soldiers sent by Gyges of Sardis to Egypt in the days of Seti became the first Greek settlers there.
• The Assyrian Conquest | The End of Nineveh | Immanuel Velikovsky

  As has been said above, Beth-Shan was besieged and occupied by Seti, and his steles and the graves of the Greek mercenaries who served with him were discovered there. Ramses II, his successor, also occupied Beth-Shan for some time, but no vestiges have been found there of Egyptian kings of later times. The conventional chronology compelled the archaeologists of Beth-Shan to conclude that after Seti and Ramses II the city was practically uninhabited until the time of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the seventh century, although from the Scriptures we know that Beth-Shan was an important city in the days of Judges and Kings. Seti-meri-en-Ptah Men-maat-Re, who left his steles in Beth-Shan, was Psammetichos of Herodotus. It was the seventh century.