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Jezreel Scripture - 2 Kings 10:6

Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, which brought them up....

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Jezreel Scripture - 2 Samuel 4:4

And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son [that was] lame of [his] feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name [was] Mephibosheth....

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Jezreel Scripture - 2 Kings 10:1

And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,...

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Jezneel in Hitchcock's Bible Names

seed of God...

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Jezreel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

jez'-re-el, jez'-rel (yizre`e'l, "God soweth"): (1) A city on the border of the territory of Issachar (Josh 19:18). 1. Territory: It is named with Chesulloth and Shunem (modern Iksal and Solam). It remained loyal to the house of Saul, and is mentioned as part of the kingdom over which Abner set Ishbosheth (2 Sam 2:9). From Jezreel came the tidi...

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Jezreel in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A city in the south of the territory of the tribe of Judah Jos 15:56; 1Sa 25:43; 27:3; 29:1,11 -2. A city of the tribe of Issachar Jos 19:18; 2Sa 2:9 Ahab's residence in 1Ki 18:45,46; 21:1 Naboth's vineyard in 1Ki 21:1 Joram's residence in 2Ki 8:29 Jehu kills King Ahab, his wife, and friends at 2Ki 9:15-37; 10:11 Prophecies concern...

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Jezreel in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(seed of God), a descendant of the father or founder of Etam, of the line of Judah. 1Ch 4:3 (B.C. about 1445)....

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Jezreel in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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 poi...

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