Dict: easton - Jezreel

easton:

Jezreel @ God scatters.

(1.) A town of Issachar kjv@Joshua:19:18), where the kings of Israel often resided (kjvKings:18:45; 21:1; kjv@2Kings:9:30). Here Elijah met Ahab, Jehu, and Bidkar; and here Jehu executed his dreadful commission against the house of Ahab ( kjv@2Kings:9:14-37 kjv@2Kings:10:1-11). It has been identified with the modern Zerin, on the most western point of the range of Gilboa, reaching down into the great and fertile valley of Jezreel, to which it gave its name.

(2.) A town in Judah kjv@Joshua:15:56), to the south-east of Hebron. Ahinoam, one of David's wives, probably belonged to this place ( kjv@1Samuel:27:3).

(3.) A symbolical name given by Hosea to his oldest son kjv@Hosea:1:4), in token of a great slaughter predicted by him, like that which had formerly taken place in the plain of Esdraelon (comp. kjv@Hosea:1:4-5).