Jezreel
   God scatters. (1.) A town of Issachar (Josh. 19:18), where the
   kings of Israel often resided (1 Kings 18:45; 21:1; 2 Kings
   9:30). Here Elijah met Ahab, Jehu, and Bidkar; and here Jehu
   executed his dreadful commission against the house of Ahab (2
   Kings 9:14-37; 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 (Josh. 15:56), to the south-east of
   Hebron. Ahinoam, one of David's wives, probably belonged to this
   place (1 Sam. 27:3).
   
     (3.) A symbolical name given by Hosea to his oldest son (Hos.
   1:4), in token of a great slaughter predicted by him, like that
   which had formerly taken place in the plain of Esdraelon (comp.
   Hos. 1:4, 5).