Beit Qad

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Beit Qad (Arabic: بيت قاد) is a Palestinian rural village in the West Bank governorate of Jenin. The village is located 5 km from the city of Jenin and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in 2017 it had a population of 1,538. The village is associated by some scholars with a biblical locality in the Kingdom of Israel, located between the city of Jezreel and the kingdom's capital Samaria. It is mentioned in the Book of Kings as Beth Ekad of the Shepherds (Hebrew: בֵּית-עֵקֶד הָרֹעִים) which can be translated as "meeting place of the shepherds". In this place, Jehu, king of Israel, slaughtered 42 relatives of Ahaziah, king of Judah. The village is also associated with a village mentioned in the Onomasticon (Gazetteer) of the Greek historian Eusebius called Beth Ekamat. Some intact Roman buildings can be found in the village, and ceramics from the Byzantine era have also been found there. Beit Qad, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517–1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain. In the census of 1596, Beit Qad appeared in the nahiya of Jenin in the liwa of Lajjun.