4. Jezreel —that is, "God will scatter" (compare :- ). It was the royal city of Ahab and his successors, in the tribe of Issachar. Here Jehu exercised his greatest cruelties ( 2 Kings 9:16 ; 2 Kings 9:25 ; 2 Kings 9:33 ; 2 Kings 10:11 ; 2 Kings 10:14 ; 2 Kings 10:17 ). There is in the name an allusion to "Israel" by a play of letters and sounds. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"
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