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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

The marginal explanation in the Revised Version (British and American) of Beth-merhak (beth ha-merchaq, "house of distance"), which is given in the text of 2Sa 15:17 instead of "a place that was far off."

See BETH-MERHAK.