On his way to Samaria Jehu slays the brethren of Ahaziah, king of Judah. He takes Jehonadab to be the witness of his zeal for Jehovah (Not in Chronicles)

12. And he arose and departed, and came[R.V. went] to Samaria Beside being the more strictly correct rendering of the verb, the change in R.V. represents the order of events. Jehu is now starting for Samaria. On the way and before he camethither he met Jehonadab, and invited him to be his companion. The LXX. does not represent -and departed".

the shearing house R.V. the shearing house of the shepherds. The original is a more full expression here than in verse 14 below. So the additional words are needed. The phrase is explained as -the house of binding of the shepherds" i.e. the place where the sheep were bound preparatory to being shorn. The R.V. margin has -house of gathering", as the sheep were gathered together before the shearing began. There was probably close by some place suited for travellers to halt in, as it clearly lay along a high road. Thus we can understand how Jehu found the cavalcade of Ahab's kindred stopping there.

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