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BETHEKED or Beth-akad, which some construe in a general sense, to signify a Shearing-house, or the House of Shepherds binding Sheep1. But the Septuagint, and several good Interpreters, explain it to be a place situated between Jezreel and Samaria. It is the same perhaps as Bethker.
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Ita Vulg. in 2 Reg. x. 12. ↩
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