2 Kings 10:12

12 Then he set out and went to Shomron. On the way he reached a shearing shed for 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 Understand, then, that no part of ADONAI's word which ADONAI spoke concerning the dynasty of Ach'av falls to the ground; because ADONAI has done what he said through his servant Eliyahu."

11 So Yehu killed everyone who remained from the house of Ach'av in Yizre'el, all his leading men, his close friends and his cohanim, until not one of them was left alive.

12 Then he set out and went to Shomron. On the way he reached a shearing shed for shepherds,

13 where he encountered relatives of Achazyah king of Y'hudah. "Who are you?" he asked. "We're relatives of Achazyah," they answered, "and we're going down to pay our respects to the families of the king and of the queen mother."

14 "Take them alive," said Yehu. They took them alive, forty-two men, slaughtered them and threw them into the shearing shed's pit; he spared not one of them.