The name Jezreel has two meanings in the Bible. There is Jezreel as the person and Jezreel as the city. The city of Jezreel is a city that is among the countries of Samaria and Galilee. It is a town in the territorial inheritance of the tribe of Judah. There are some allegations that this city may have been the where Ahinoam was born. Ahinoam was one of David’s wives; she was also the mother of David’s first-born son, Amon. The city of Jezreel has a lot of historical background as well from what has been mentioned already; most of them however were very cruel and very violent. There is one historical event in this city that it is most known for that correlates to Hosea 1. This city was the place where King Jehu created a mass murder with King Ahab, his queen, Jezebel, Ahaziah, and their generation of 70 sons. Jezebel was also brutally murdered by Jehu; when she heard that Jehu was in the town of Jezreel; Jezebel, confronted Jehu. Jehu then ordered that Jezebel be thrown out of the palace in Jezreel, and was trampled on and killed by horses. Once, after the murder of Jezebel, Jehu then proceeds to return to the town of Samaria. When traveling to Samaria, he then crossed paths and met the brothers of Ahaziah’s from Judah. Jehu proceeded and killed them as well. During this time in history, the people of Israel were not serving God. It was during this time where the Israeli people were worshiping Baal; this is not what Jehu approved of. Jehu wanted to get rid of Baal worshiping throughout all of Israel. He knew that this was not appealing in the eyes of God. Therefore, he gathered all the people throughout Israel who worshiped Baal. Jehu commanded his eighty guards to go out and kill all those who were worshippers of Baal. They... ... middle of paper ... ...ted Coogan, Michael David, Marc Zvi Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, and Pheme Perkins. "Hosea ." In The new Oxford annotated Bible: with the Apocrypha, 1260. Fully rev. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Freedman, David Noel. "Jezreel." In The Anchor Bible dictionary, 849, 850, 851 . New York: Doubleday, 1992. “Jezreel.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition. (September 2013): 1.MAS Ultra – School Edition, EBSCOhost. Irvine, Sturart A. “The Threat of Jezreel (Hosea 1:4-5).” Catholic Biblical Quaterly 57. No.3 (July 1, 1995): 494-503. ATLA Religion Database with ALTASerials, EBSCOhost. McComiskey, Thomas Edward. “Prophetic Irony in Hosea 1.4: a Study of the Collacation and Its Implications for the Fall of Jehu’s Dynasty.” Journal For The Study Of The Old Testament 18, no. 58 (June 1993): 93 Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File EBSCOhost.
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ZEDEKIAH (m) "justice of the Lord" (Hebrew). The name of several characters in the Bible.
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Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Bible. Eds. Dom Bernand Orchard, Rev. R. V. Fuller. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1966. Print.
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The Biblical picture of life in Judah during the Exile was expressed in only a few verses. One states, “But the poorest of the people were left to farm the land (2 Kings 25:12).'; This gives us little information to work with, and all that can be assumed is that not many people were left in Jerusalem, and those that were, farmed. Whether they farmed for themselves, or for Babylon cannot be reasonably determined from this one verse. Later on, we see that some underground guerrilla forces were also left in Judah as they assassinated Gedaliah and fled to Egypt. Other than this, we know nothing from 2 Kings 25 about life in Judah during the Exile. The articles, however, give us much more light into life in Judah during these times. Graham illustrates that the people that worked in Jerusalem, Mozah, and Gibeon during the Exile were primarily vinedressers and plowmen. 2 Kings 25 does not give us enough information to have known that people worked in these three cities. Their work, however, was not for themselves, but for the greater power of Babylon, as can be illustrated in an engraving on a jar that read, “belonging to the lord'; in reference to the work done by the people for the Babylonian king. This, also, was not explicitly illustrated in 2 Kings 25. The king of Babylon collected the goods produced and used them to better the Babylonian economy and the royal crown. Governor Gedaliah also was expected to have overseen people of Judah work to produce wine, fruit, and oil for Babylon. Outside Benjamin, people worked to make perfume, especially balm, for the royal crown of Babylon. The insight Graham gives us into the work done at Mizpah stresses an important point that 2 Kings 25 leaves out.
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Jericho was an important city in the Old Testament. The city was overtaken and devastated several times. However, it was always reoccupied -- sometimes quickly and other times very slowly. Herod the Great, Cleopatra, and Augustus are some of the mighty rulers that once took claim of some or all of Jericho. Many Galileans would travel through the Jordan valley and go by Jericho on their route to Jerusalem. By taking this course, they could avoid passing through Samaritan territory (Metzger and Coogan, 1993).
LaHaye, Tim F., and Edward E. Hindson. The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2004.
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