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Jezreel

Jezreel valley (territory of Issachar) · Old Testament · 32 verses

Jezreel was a city and the broad fertile valley of the same name in northern Israel. It was a royal center in the days of the northern kings. The name appears in Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel and 6 more in the King James text.

About Jezreel

Jezreel was a city and the broad fertile valley of the same name in northern Israel. It was a royal center in the days of the northern kings.

Its place in the story

Ahab and Jezebel had a palace at Jezreel, and there Naboth was killed for his vineyard. It became the scene of Jehu's overthrow of the house of Ahab and the death of Jezebel.

Jezreel in Scripture (KJV)

“And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,”
Joshua 15:56 (KJV)
“And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.”
Joshua 17:16 (KJV)
“And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,”
Joshua 19:18 (KJV)
“Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.”
Judges 6:33 (KJV)
“David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.”
1 Samuel 25:43 (KJV)
“Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.”
1 Samuel 29:1 (KJV)
“So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.”
1 Samuel 29:11 (KJV)
“And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.”
2 Samuel 2:9 (KJV)

Jezreel is named 32 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

The judgment on the house of Ahab at Jezreel shows God's justice against wickedness, part of the story that awaits the righteous King, Christ.

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Where is Jezreel in the Bible?

Jezreel was a city and the broad fertile valley of the same name in northern Israel. It was a royal center in the days of the northern kings. The name appears in Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel and 6 more in the King James text.

What happened at Jezreel?

Ahab and Jezebel had a palace at Jezreel, and there Naboth was killed for his vineyard. It became the scene of Jehu's overthrow of the house of Ahab and the death of Jezebel.

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