Jezreel (IV)

IV. JEZREEL, or Esdrael, or Stradela, or Jezrahel, a celebrated City, situated in the Great Plain between Legio to the west, and Scythopolis to the east. It belonged to Euseb. in locis. Josh. xix. 18. 1 Kings xxi. 1. and 23. and 2 Kings ix. 10, &c.the Tribe of Issachar. Ahab had a palace there; and this city became famous on the score of Naboth’s vineyard, and the vengeance which God executed on Ahab at Jezreel. S. Jerom a says, that Jezreel was pretty near Maximianopolis; and that not far from it there was a very long vale, of above ten thousand paces in length. Josephusa Hieronym. in Osee i. Guill. Tyr. l. 22. c. 26. calls the city of Jezreel, Azarus, or Azares; and in the time of William of Tyre, it was called Little Gerin. There was a fine fountain in it, the waters whereof fell into the river Jordan, near Scythopolis.

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