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Valley of Jezreel is a valley in the Bible, about 91 km (56 miles) north of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 3 verses, from Joshua 17:16 to Hosea 1:5.
Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh. 17:16; Judg. 6:33; Hos. 1:5). It was the scene of the signal victory gained by the Israelites under Gideon over the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the “children of the east” (Judg. 6:3). Two centuries after this the Israelites were here defeated by the Philistines, and Saul and Jonathan, with the flower of the army of Israel, fell (1 Sam. 31:1-6).
This name was in after ages extended to the whole of the plain of Esdraelon (q.v.). It was only this plain of Jezreel and that north of Lake Huleh that were then accessible to the chariots of the Canaanites (comp. 2 Kings 9:21; 10:15).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Valley of Jezreel is a valley about 91 km (56 miles) north of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.
The King James Version names Valley of Jezreel in 3 verses, in 3 books, from Joshua 17:16 to Hosea 1:5.