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  Jezreel Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jezreel Valley arabic (Sahel Zir'in)سهل زرعين or Marj Ibn Amer(the meadow of the son of Amer) مرج بن عامر (Hebrew: עמק יזרעאל;"Emek Yizrael", also known as the Plain of Esdraelon) is a large plain and inland valley in the north of Israel.
Jezreel Valley is part of the Lower Galilee in the North District of Israel.
In the Bible, the Valley of Jezreel lies to the north of Jezreel between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan River (Joshua 17:16; Judges 6:33; Hosea 1:5).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jezreel_Valley   (323 words)

  
 Jezreel - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
Jezreel lies at the western end of Mount Gilboa, where it slopes down to the level of the Valley of Jezreel.
The surrounding valley, or plain, which bears the name of the city, is the largest in Israel.
Jezreel was allotted to the tribe of Issachar (Josh 19:18).
www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/jezreel.htm   (535 words)

  
 Jezreel Valley
Thus the Jezreel Valley was both a blessing and a curse to the children of Israel, depending on the faithfulness to God.
Deborah and Barak defeated the Canaanites in the Jezreel Valley.
The Philistines gathered in the Jezreel Valley before the battle with King Saul, in which he and his son Jonathan were killed and their bodies hung on the walls of Beth-shan (see Lower Jordan Valley).
www.messengers-of-messiah.org /Tour/JezVal.html   (1284 words)

  
 Jezreel Valley (BiblePlaces.com)
Jezreel (Christian Travel Study Program) Features text highlighting the biblical importance of the city of Jezreel, accompanied by one picture of the tel.
The Jezreel Valley (Gems in Israel) Interesting and informative, this article harmonizes the biblical and modern history of the site, as well as provides insight into the many rich resources of the region.
The Valley of Jezreel-The Plain of Esdraelon (Christian Resource Institute) Highlights the agricultural, commercial, and strategic benefits of the land.
www.bibleplaces.com /jezreelvalley.htm   (843 words)

  
 Plains and Valleys of Palestine
From this valley to the great desert near Gaza, and the Dead Sea, are a succession of mountain ridges, first the mountain of Ephraim, and then to the south the mountains of Judah.
Just as the mountains of Gilboa extend to the northeast of the valley of Jezreel, so there are to the northwest of the same naked rides, which form parts of Carmel, which gradually declines to the sea.
The Carmel mountains extend southeasterly towards the left side of the valley of Jezreel, till they touch the mountains of Ephraim, in the neighbourhood of the village Kut, which is west of Dshinin, the ancient En­Gannim.
www.jewish-history.com /palestine/valleys.html   (2223 words)

  
 Samairia to Jezreel (city)
The surrounding Jezreel Valley, which bears the name of the city, is the largest plain in Israel.
Jezreel was allotted to the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 19:18).
Nothing remains of ancient Jezreel, and the lesson of 1 Kings on land seizure is apparently lost too, especially as it relates to Jewish dealings with the Palestinians.
www.ourfatherlutheran.net /biblehomelands/palestine/jezreelcity.htm   (2212 words)

  
 Daily Bible Study - The Dogs of Jezreel
Jezreel, from the Hebrew word pronounced yiz-reh-ale, meaning God will sow, was a northern city of Israel within the allotted territory of the tribe of Issachar (see Tribal Lands).
The Valley of Jezreel, named after the city, marked the boundary between Samaria to the south and Galilee to the north.
Jezreel is mentioned frequently in events of Bible History between the time of Joshua and the Kings of Israel and Judah.
www.keyway.ca /htm2005/20050921.htm   (1068 words)

  
 InSite Israel Nazareth History
The valley and its history were well known to the Jews of Nazareth in the time of Jesus.During the first 20 years of his life that he spent in Nazareth, Jesus had many an opportunity to walk on the mountain ranges, to look over and think about the history of his people.
The great battles that had taken place in the valley, together with the great hopes that were dashed with their losses, must have affected and shaped his view on life.
But the valley of Nazareth is on a mountain overlooking the Jezreel valley - and the mountain of the precipice overlooks the valley of Nazaret and the valley of Jezreel.
www.inisrael.com /tour/nazareth/history.htm   (847 words)

  
 Issachar
Kimchi, it is true, notices this difficulty; but believes that the water of this pool ran to Jezreel, where the dogs licked it up, dyed as it was with the blood of the deceased king.
At the foot of the mount, is the valley Sarané.
Between the Little Hermon and the mountains of Gilboa is a small valley, at the end of which, in the vicinity of the Jordan, is the village Phasal, in which I believe to discover a trace of the ancient Pislon, after which this valley is named.
www.jewish-history.com /Palestine/issachar.html   (1727 words)

  
 Diggings Resources - The weekly picture
The battle was undoubtedly fought in the Valley of Jezreel, though whether the encounter took Barak as close to Megiddo as he claims may be open to debate, Judges 4:1-24, although "the Waters of Megiddo" are mentioned.
Jezreel figured in the Six Day War in 1967 when Jordanian forces surged up the valley from the Jordan River and had to be driven back.
He points out that in the battles fought in the Valley of Jezreel "the party who arrived second (i.e., was last to the battlefield) won the battle outright in ten out of thirteen instances.
www.diggingsonline.com /pages/rese/magaz1ne/samp43.htm   (1918 words)

  
 JWSR v6n1 - Eric Cline
Megiddo is located in the Jezreel Valley, almost exactly halfway between Haifa on the Mediterranean coast to the west and Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee to the east, and between Egypt to the south and Mesopotamia to the north.
The Jezreel Valley can be compared to the meeting place of two tectonic plates, where the stress and strain frequently result in cataclysmic, earth-shaking events of immense magnitude, whose reverberations are felt far away, both geographically and temporally.
Like the Jezreel Valley in Israel, the Kephissos Valley in Greece was literally a natural geographical highway which was often the only practical choice for both warriors and merchants to use when traveling from north to south or south to north in Greece.
jwsr.ucr.edu /archive/vol6/number1/cline/cline_print.shtml   (2518 words)

  
 jezreel valley
The Jezreel Valley is a roughly triangular plain oriented northwest to southeast, separating the hilly areas of Galilee to the north from those of Samaria to the south.
Although originally the valley floor was marshy, it has always been of great stratigic importance, having been rightfully called the "battlefield of Palestine." The principal north-south route of the ancient world, called by the Romans Via Maris ("Way of the Sea") cut through the plain on its way from Egypt to Damascus and Mesopotamia.
At the southeastern end of the Jezreel Valley is Mount Gilboa, a barren ridge rising to a high point of 1,700 feet above the valley about 7 miles west of the Jordan River.
www.ourfatherlutheran.net /biblehomelands/galilee/jezreel.htm   (1460 words)

  
 Prophecies & Events Yet to Come
Jezreel means "to sow" and The LORD says He will "sow" Israel unto Him in that day.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
users.panola.com /aubrey/Yet/yet13.htm   (2766 words)

  
 Hosea Segment 1
The Jezreel Valley separated Samaria and Galilee, thus Israel's bow was broken at the Valley of Jezreel.
There is a future battle to happen in the Jezreel Valley at the Mountains of Megiddo or Har-Megiddo, better known as Armageddon.
The Jezreel Valley is the valley at the foot of the Carmel Mountains.
www.bibleword.org /hosea1.html   (1223 words)

  
 The Jezreel Valley - Tour Israel - Travel & Tourism Center Hotel Tours Vacation Reservations and Tourist Guide - Gems ...
The Jezreel Valley is home to some of the most fertile farmland in Israel and it is a place with wonderful vistas.
The valley got its name from the biblical city of Yizre’el that served as a wintering place during the time of the monarchy.
Aside from its agricultural significance the Jezreel Valley was an important thoroughfare even in ancient times as it presented an easy route from the ocean in the west to the mountains east of the Jordan River and to Egypt.
www.gemsinisrael.com /e_article000002629.htm   (965 words)

  
 Photograph: Jezreel Valley
Though the Jezreel Valley is often thought of as one great valley, it is actually a series of valleys that connects the Plain of Acco with the Jordan Valley and the Sea of Galilee region.
The valley of Megiddo, for example, is in the western portion of this valley.
The Jezreel Valley was the main route across the Holy Land between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Jordan Valley to the east.
scriptures.lds.org /biblephotos/21   (173 words)

  
 The Valley of Jezreel/The Plain of Esdraelon
The Valley of Jezreel and Plain of Esdraelon
The Valley of Jezreel is often identified as comprising only the eastern end of the Plain of Esdraelon, the valley between between Mount Gilboa and the Hill of Moreh and Mount Tabor (see Mount Tabor).
And it was at Megiddo that King Josiah was killed in a fateful attempt to block Egyptian armies from using the pass to march north to lend aid to Assyrian armies trapped by the Babylonians (2 Kings 23:29).
www.cresourcei.org /phototour/pjezreel.html   (559 words)

  
 Gideon-3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On the northern end of the valley, there’s a mountain between the end of the valley and the Mediterranean Sea, that is Mount Carmel.
In the southern end of the valley of Jezreel are two mountains, Mount Ebal and mount Gerezim.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.
www.temcat.com /Gideon-3.htm   (6829 words)

  
 Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Inc
Jezreel means "scattered." We can imagine when Hosea first heard the name he thought the Lord had made a mistake, for in Hebrew Jezreel is almost identical both in spelling and in sound to Israel, which means "God perseveres." "Surely the Lord means Israel," Hosea must have thought.
God pronounced doom on Ahab's family because of this, saying that judgment would come on them in the valley of Jezreel, where Naboth had been slain.
Jezreel means "scattered." So since Hosea is prophesying not long before the fall of Samaria and the captivity of the people of the northern kingdom in 722 B.C., he is really forecasting the scattering of the Jewish people that began in 722 B.C. and then continued through successive disasters and deportations in the south.
www.alliancenet.org /CC/CDA/Content_Blocks/CC_Printer_Friendly_Version_Utility/1,,PTID307086|CHID559376|CIID1850396,00.html   (759 words)

  
 Valley of Hamongog
In the Valley of Passengers on the East of the Sea.
The "Valley of the Passengers" in Hebrew is "Guy-'Ohverim".
It is this valley that is to flow with blood to the depth of the horses bridle.
www.velocity.net /~edju/PForum/Magog1.htm   (1314 words)

  
 Jokne'am: Ben-Tor | The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications
The Western Jezreel Valley, the focus of the Jokne‘am Regional Project, is triangular shaped and extends over an area of approximately 120 sq.
Three sites located in the Western Jezreel Valley were chosen for investigation: Jokne‘am (map reference 160 228), with an area of approximately 10 acres, Tell Qiri (map reference 161 227), with an area of about 2.5 acres, and Tel-Qashish (map reference 160 232) with an area similar to that of Tell-Qiri.
The final report on the excavations at Tell-Qiri was published in 1987 (Tell Qiri, A Village in the Jezreel Valley, Qedem 24), and the report on the late periods (Hellenistic - Ottoman) at Jokne'am was published in 1996 (Jokne‘am I, The Late Periods, Qedem Reports 3).
www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Cisjordan/Joqneam_00   (350 words)

  
 Women of the Bible - Deborah and Jael
The Kishon River roughly follows the outline of the Carmel ridge, passing through the Valley of Jezreel (Esdraelon Valley), a flat marshy area in Biblical times, as a torrent in times of heavy run-off or as a brook or dry bed late in the year.
-- the Valley of Jezreel I. it is in the SE part of the larger valley that separates Samaria (S) from Galilee (N).
the borders of the valley are: A. on the W, Gilboa and Moreh B. on the E by the Jordan River IV.
www.biblebb.com /files/KSS/kss-deborah.htm   (3333 words)

  
 ZION MINISTRIES - Pictures and photos of the Holy Land
A view of the Valley that will be the site of a great endtime battle between the forces of good and evil.
A view from the summit of the mountain with the Valley of Jezreel (Gr.
An aerial view of the Valley of Jezreel with the Sacred mountain in the foreground.
www.zionministry.com /pics.html   (277 words)

  
 Megiddo/Jezreel Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The valley of Megiddo, now known as the valley of Jezreel, will serve as the gathering place; a place where the armies warring against Israel will assemble.
It consists of a vertical shaft 120 feet deep connected by a tunnel 215 feet long to a spring located outside the city walls.
Also, the Valley of Jezreel is a flat plane of land 20 miles long by 14 miles wide, surrounded by mountains.
www.angelfire.com /super/redhorse/BeenThere/Megiddo/Megiddo.html   (224 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jezreel: Hosea 1:4-5 (NKJV) Then the LORD said to him: "Call his name Jezreel, For in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
The prophet Hosea named his son Jezreel as a symbol to indicate the evil nature of the dynasty of Jehu which began with much bloodshed in Jezreel.
The valley of Jezreel was a place of much trade traffic and had become known as a place of great violence.
www.bmaweb.net /AlphaO/notes/970323pm.htm   (1309 words)

  
 The Latest News for Mother   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The valley of Achor of Joshua six and seven, therefore, is a type of the valley of Achor of Hosea two.
From this we see that Jezreel, the one addressed, is symbolical of a prophet who is to command his "brethren, Ammi," and his "sisters, Ruhamah," to go to their "mother" and plead with her to reform.
That is, as Jezreel represents the prophets, and as the "valley of Achor" (Hos.
shepherds-rod.org /Tracts/trac004.html   (12797 words)

  
 World News & Prophecy > February 2006 > A Place Called Megiddo: The World's Battleground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rising out of the pastoral Jezreel Valley is a hill containing the remains of a city whose foundations go back several millennia.
At the end of the age, the Valley of Jezreel, in which Megiddo is located, will be the gathering place for an immense army that will fight the returning King of Kings, Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
The broad flat plains of the Jezreel Valley are only the staging area for this climatic confrontation.
www.wnponline.org /wnp/wnp0602/megiddo.htm   (1991 words)

  
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Valley of Jehoshaphat - Place where the Lord will summon the world to be judged.
Valley of Jezreel - Large, flat, fertile plain in northern Israel between the Galilee Mountains and the Samaria Mountains.
It is also known as the Valley of Armageddon.
community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=2159   (247 words)

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