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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 10:11
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, etc.] Which to do, and to justify himself in so doing, was the design of what he said in the preceding verses: and his great men; his ministers of state and counsellors, that advised him to, and abetted him in his idolatrous practices, and so justly suffered for the same; and perhaps some of them at least were those very men that cut off the heads of his sons in complaisance to Jehu: and his kinsfolks: more distantly related to him or his acquaintance and familiars, his associates in sin and wickedness: and his priests: who officiated for him and offered his sacrifices to Baal; the priests he kept in his palace, and ate at his table: until he left him none remaining; either of his kindred or his priests, that is, that were at Jezreel; for there were others at Samaria, (<121017>2 Kings 10:17,19). Ver. 12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria, etc.] 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 f115 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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