Verse 12
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 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. K. 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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