Jezreel

1 Samuel

The Woman Who Stopped a Massacre

Jezreel is identified as Ahinoam's hometown — a brief geographical note that places David's marriages within real Israelite geography as he consolidates relationships across the region during his exile.

1 Samuel

The Dismissal David Didn't See Coming

Jezreel is where the Israelite army is encamped, waiting for the Philistine attack — the battlefield David would have been forced to fight on had he not been dismissed.

2 Samuel

The Deal That Died in the Doorway

Jezreel is named here as the hometown of Ahinoam, David's first wife — a geographic detail identifying the origins of the woman who bore his firstborn son.

2 Samuel

The Reward Nobody Expected

Jezreel is where the news of Saul and Jonathan's battlefield deaths arrived — the shock of that report caused Mephibosheth's nurse to flee in panic, dropping and crippling the child.

1 Kings

The Day the Sky Answered

After three years of drought and silence, Elijah walks back into enemy territory and challenges 450 prophets of Baal to a public showdown on Mount Carmel. One altar, two sides, and a question the whole nation has been avoiding: who is actually God?

1 Kings

The Vineyard That Cost Everything

A king wants a vineyard. A queen engineers a murder to get it. And just when it seems like power has won, a prophet walks in with a message that changes everything. This chapter is about what happens when people with authority decide the rules don't apply to them.

2 Kings

Perfect Timing and Dark Turns

Jezreel is where the wounded Joram retreats to recover — and where Ahaziah visits him, making both kings present in the same location when Jehu arrives to carry out God's judgment in the next chapter.

2 Kings

The Man Who Went Too Far

Jezreel is Jehu's base of operations, where the seventy princes' heads are delivered in baskets and publicly displayed at the city gate as a grim declaration that Ahab's dynasty is finished.

1 Chronicles

More Than a List of Names

Jezreel appears here not as the famous northern valley but as one of the sons of Etam in Judah's southern genealogy, a person whose name was shared with a well-known region.

2 Chronicles

The Shortest Reign and the Rescue Nobody Saw Coming

Jezreel is the city where Joram is recovering and where Jehu's purge is actively underway — the location Ahaziah travels to, unwittingly placing himself inside a divine execution in progress.

Hosea

The Husband Who Wouldn't Give Up

Jezreel appears here transformed — the valley of battles and the site of Ahab's crimes now means 'God sows,' its name redeemed from a symbol of judgment into an image of planting and new life.