Garden-House
Garden-House
is the rendering of the A.V. at 2Ki 9:27, of ; where, however, a place is rather denoted. SEE BETH-HAGGAN.
Garden-houses are usual in the East, especially in the grounds of kings and wealthy persons. In Son 1:16, the bride, looking out from her boudoir, into the gayly-planted court-yard, acknowledges the taste and affection of her beloved as she spies the summer-house, all shaded with verdure, and containing the divan (), that invited to the luxurious repose of which Orientals are so fond. SEE GARDEN.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Garden House
GARDEN HOUSE in 2Ki 9:27 should prob. be Beth-haggan (leaving Heb. untranslated), the name of an unknown place S of Jezreel.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Garden-House
( , beth ha-gan): A place mentioned in describing the flight of Ahaziah, king of Judah, from Jehu (2Ki 9:27). Probably we ought not to translate the Hebrew, but take it as a proper name, BETH-HAGGAN (which see). If he fled southward, the town might possibly be Jenn, EN-GANNIM, which see.