Bible Location
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Beth-eked was the site where Jehu encountered and slaughtered the relatives of Ahaziah. It is important because it stands within the violent purge that followed Jehu's rise. First appears in 2 Kgs 10:12.1
AI summary: Beth-eked matters because it is bound to one of the grimmest episodes in the Jehu narrative. The place becomes a stopping point where royal kin are recognized and executed, intensifying the sense of sweeping dynastic judgment. The cross references present Beth-eked as a waypoint of political bloodshed during Jehu's purge.1
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.