2 Kings 10:12

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

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 now that of the word of the LORD which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, nothing shall fall to the ground, for the LORD has done that which he spoke by his slave Elijah.

11 So Jehu slew all that had remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and all his kinsfolk and all his priests until he left him none remaining.

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

13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah, and we go down to salute the sons of the king and the sons of the queen.

14 So he said, Take them alive. And after they took them alive, they slew them at the well of the shearing house, forty-two men, without leaving any of them.