2 Kings 10:12
And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
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 {q} 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.
{q} De loc. Heb. fol. 89. K.