The shearing-house—literally, as in the margin. This was perhaps already a proper name, Beth-eked, identical with the Beth-akad of Jerome, w…

And he arose ... and came. —So the Syriac, rightly. The common Hebrew text has, “And he arose and came and departed.”…

Ver. 12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria
To make a clear riddance there of all that belonged to Ahab, …

In the most terrible events, though accompanied by the basest crimes of man, the truth and justice of God should be recognized; and he never has co…