Jezreel

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).