2 Kings 10:12

12 Jehu then set out and went toward Samaria. At Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

2 Kings 10:12 in Other Translations

12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,

12 Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

12 Then Jehu set out for Samaria. Along the way, while he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

12 That done, he brushed himself off and set out for Samaria. Along the way, at Beth Eked (Binding House) of the Shepherds,

12 Then he set out and went on his way to Samaria. On the way, while he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

2 Kings 10:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria
To make a clear riddance there of all that belonged to Ahab, as at Jezreel, and abolish idolatry there:

and as he was at the shearing house in the way;
or, "the house of the binding of the shepherds", who, in shearing their sheep, bind their legs together; the Targum is,

``the house of the gathering of the shepherds;''

where they used to meet and converse together; with some it is the proper name of a place, Betheked, a country village between Jezreel and Samaria. Jerom speaks ^F17 of a village of this name, situated in a large plain, about fifteen miles from a place called Legion, which village he takes to be this here.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. K.

2 Kings 10:12 In-Context

10 Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail. The LORD has done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”

11 So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.

12 Jehu then set out and went toward Samaria. At Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

13 he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” They said, “We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother.”

14 “Take them alive!” he ordered. So they took them alive and slaughtered them by the well of Beth Eked—forty-two of them. He left no survivor.