1 Kings 22:38

And one washed the chariot in [ or at ; Heb . עַל ] the pool of Samaria. [Nearly all Eastern cities had their tanks or pools, often outside the city gate. Jerusalem has several of these, and we read of one at Hebron ( 2 Samuel 14:12 ) and Gibeon ( 2 Samuel 2:13 ). Cf. Song of Solomon 7:4 . The Hebrew word בְּרֵכָה is preserved in the modern Arabic Birkeh ]; and the dogs [The LXX . has the swine and the dogs . The mention of swine is hardly likely to have been omitted, had it formed part of the original text] licked up his blood [cf. 1 Kings 21:19 , note. According to Josephus, the chariot was washed "in the fountain of Jezreel ." The alteration would appear to have been made to avoid the difficulty occasioned by the discrepancy between the statement of the text, and that of 1 Kings 21:19 ], and they washed his armour [So the Chaldaic and the Syriac. But this translation is now abandoned,