2 Kings 10:12
New International Version
Jehu then set out and went toward Samaria. At Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

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

New King James Version
And he arose and departed and went to Samaria. On the way, at Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

New American Standard Bible
Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,

NASB 1995
Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,

NASB 1977
Then he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he arose and came out and went to Samaria. On the way, while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,

Amplified Bible
And he set out and went to Samaria. On the way as he was at the place of the sand heaps [meeting place] for the shepherds,

Christian Standard Bible
Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, while he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

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

American Standard Version
And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he stood up, he went and entered Samaria and he was breaking down the high places which were on the way.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he arose and went to Samaria, and he was in the house of sheep-shearing in the way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come to the shepherds' cabin in the way,

English Revised Version
And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house of the shepherds in the way,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Jehu left for Samaria. When he came to Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

Good News Translation
Jehu left Jezreel to go to Samaria. On the way, at a place called "Shepherds' Camp,"

International Standard Version
Then Jehu got up, left the city, and went to Samaria. When he arrived at the shearing house that was located on the way,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way,

Literal Standard Version
And he rises, and comes in and goes to Samaria; he [is] at the shepherds’ shearing-house in the way,

Majority Standard Bible
Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

New American Bible
Then he went back inside. He set out for Samaria and, at Beth-eked-haroim on the way,

NET Bible
Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

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

New Heart English Bible
He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at Beth Eked of the Shepherds on the way,

Webster's Bible Translation
And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing-house in the way,

World English Bible
He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,

Young's Literal Translation
And he riseth, and cometh in and goeth to Samaria; he is at the shepherds' shearing-house in the way,

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Context
Jehu Slaughters Ahab's Family
11So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor. 12Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds, 13Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”…

Cross References
2 Kings 10:11
So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.

2 Kings 10:13
Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, "Who are you?" "We are relatives of Ahaziah," they answered, "and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother."

2 Kings 10:14
Then Jehu ordered, "Take them alive." So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked--forty-two men. He spared none of them.


Treasury of Scripture

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

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2 Kings 10
1. Jehu, by his letters, causes seventy of Ahab's sons to be beheaded
8. He excuses the fact by the prophecy of Elijah
12. At the shearing house he slays forty-two of Ahaziah's brothers
15. He takes Jehonadab into his company
18. By subtilty he destroys all the worshippers of Baal
29. Jehu follows Jeroboam's sins
32. Hazael oppresses Israel
34. Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu














(12) And he arose . . . and came.--So the Syriac, rightly. The common Hebrew text has, "And he arose and came and departed."

And as he was at the shearing house in the way.--Rather, He was at Beth-eqed-haroim on the way. The Targum renders: "He was at the shepherds' meeting-house on the way." The place was probably a solitary building, which served as a rendezvous for the shepherds of the neighbourhood. (The root 'aqad means "to bind," or "knot together;" hence the common explanation of the name is "the shepherds' binding house," i.e., the place where they bound their sheep for the shearing. But the idea of binding is easily connected with that of meeting, gathering together: comp. our words band, knot.) The LXX. has: "He was at Baithakad (or Baithakath) of the shepherds." Eusebius mentions a place called Beithakad, fifteen Roman miles from Legio (Lejj-n), identical with the present Beitkad, six miles east of Jenin, in the plain of Esdraelon; but this seems too far off the route from Jezreel to Samaria, which passes Jenin.

Verses 12-14. - The massacre of the brethren of Ahaziah. Verse 12. - And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria; rather, went on his way to Samaria (ἐπορεύθη εἰς Σαμάρειαν, LXX.). Having arranged matters at Jezreel as his interests required, and secured the adhesion of the Samaritan "great men," Jehu now sot out for the capital. The narrative from this point to ver. 17 is of events that happened to him while he was upon his road. And as he was at the shearing-house in the way. Between Jezreel and Samaria was a station where the shepherds of the district were accustomed to shear their flocks. The custom gave name to the place, which became known as Beth-Eked (Βαιθακάθ, LXX.; Beth-Akad, Jerome), "the house of binding," from the practice of tying the sheep's four feet together before shearing them, The situation has not been identified.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then [Jehu] set out
וַיָּ֙קָם֙ (way·yā·qām)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

toward Samaria.
שֹׁמְר֑וֹן (šō·mə·rō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 8111: Samaria -- capital of northern kingdom of Israel

At
בֵּֽית־ (bêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
עֵ֥קֶד (‘ê·qeḏ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with


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