Shabtin

Sherds from the early Ottoman era has also been found here.[6]

In the 1840s, the village got caught up in the Qays–Yaman rivalry and was at one time plundered.[8]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted the village, Cheptin, on the slopes of a hill in the distance.[9] An Ottoman village list of the same year, 1870, showed that Schetin had 16 houses and a population of 42, though the population count only included men.[10][11]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described ‘’Shebtin’’ as: "a small village in a valley, with a well to the east. It appears to be an ancient site, and has rock cut tombs south of it."[12]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Shebtin had a population of 63 inhabitants, all Muslims,[13] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 110, still all Muslim, in 20 houses.[14]

In 1945 statistics the population of Shabtin was 150 Muslims,[15] with 4,423 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[16] Of this, 27 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,158 dunams for cereals,[17] while 7 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[18]

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  Shabtin 1944 1:20,000
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  Shabtin 1945 1:250,000

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Shabtin came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 232 inhabitants.[19]

During the Six-Day War in 1967, Shabtin came under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 7.2% of Shabtin land was classified as Area B, the remaining 92.8% as Area C.[20]

Israel has confiscated 1,781 dunams of land from Shabtin in order to construct two settlements, Nili and Na'aleh.[21]