Shearing-house

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Shearing-house
     (2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., "house of shepherds binding sheep."
     R.V., "the shearing-house of the shepherds;" marg., "house of
     gathering"), some place between Samaria and Jezreel, where Jehu
     slew "two and forty men" of the royal family of Judah. The Heb.
     word Beth-eked so rendered is supposed by some to be a proper


     name.