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Places of the Bible

Jezreel

A town of Issachar

Northward from Jerusalem. Tower of Jezreel in Jezreel. II Kings 9:17
Northward from Jerusalem. Tower of Jezreel in Jezreel. II Kings 9:17 1950 · American Colony Photo Department / Matson Photo Service · Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Jezreel, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

  • Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse
  • Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Elijah · 909 BC · 3 verses
  • Reign of Ahaziah (Jehoahaz) · 885 BC · 1 verse
  • Reign of Jehu · 885 BC · 10 verses
  • Prophecies of Hosea · 784 BC · 3 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 22 verses

Joshua
19:18
2 Samuel
2:9
1 Kings
4:12, 18:45, 18:46, 21:1, 21:23
2 Kings
8:29, 9:10, 9:15, 9:16, 9:17, 9:30, 9:36, 9:37, 10:6, 10:7, 10:11
2 Chronicles
22:6
Hosea
1:4, 1:11, 2:22

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.