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).