Beth-Merhak
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
Beth-Merhak ( 2 Samuel 15:17 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘a place that was far off’; RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘the Far House’). Stade and others understand it to mean the last house of the city. No town so called is known between Jerusalem and Jericho.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(Heb. Beyth ham-Merchak', בֵּית הִמֶּרְחָק House Of The Remoteness; Sept. translates Οϊ v Κος Ὁ Μακράν , Vulg. Procul A Domo; A. V. "a place that was far off"), apparently the proper name of a locality near Jerusalem, and not far beyond the brook Kidron, where King David first halted in his exit from the city on the rebellion of Absalom ( 2 Samuel 15:17); doubtless a designation of the environs outside the city wall, in the valley of Jehoshaphat, as being the extreme limit of the houses.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
beth - mer´hak ( בּית המּרחק , bēth ha - merḥāḳ ; ἐν οἴκῳ τῷ μακράν , en oı́kō tō̇ makrán , literally "a place (house) that was far off" ( 2 Samuel 15:17 the Revised Version, margin "the Far House")): A place mentioned in the account of David's flight from Absalom. No town of this name is known on the route which he followed. Some scholars think the name denotes simply the outermost of the houses of the city.
