Jezreel

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Jezreel (jĕz`rēĕl) [Heb.,=God sows].

1 City, ancient Palestine, in the plain of Esdraelon Esdraelon (ĕs'drəē`lən) [Gr. for Jezreel ], fertile plain, c.200 sq mi (520 sq km), extending southeast c.
..... Click the link for more information. , halfway from Megiddo to the Jordan, and mentioned in the Bible. Situated on land allotted to Issachar's tribe, Jezreel was a residence (9th cent. B.C.) of King Ahab, whose family was called the house of Jezreel. Jezreel came to describe the town's surrounding valley, which separates Galilee from Samaria.

2 In the Bible, town of Judah.

3 In the Book of Hosea, symbolic name for a son of Hosea.

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Presently we came to a ruinous old town on a hill, the same being the ancient Jezreel.

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