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1) Significance of Jezreel Historically
Jezreel is first listed a place of Judah (Joshua 15:56). This is clearly in the territory of Judah and not to be confused with the more famous place named Jezreel in the Jezreel Valley.
The first mention of 'the valley of Jezreel' is also in Joshua, and the context in relationship to chariots is noted.
And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel. (Joshua 17:16)
The land also bordered Issachar's inheritance (Joshua 19:18).
Jezreel means 'God shall sow', and it would make sense that the verdant valley in Northern Israel would be named for sowing. The place called Jezreel in the valley of Jezreel is on a rise in the midst of the fertile valley of Jezreel (see picture). In addition the site of the old city even today has abundant water, and is close to an area abundant in natural springs. All the blue on the map is modern water storage following the ancient river path. The area today is full of fields with crops. Due to its large open flatness, “in Hebrew the Jezreel Valley is often referred to simply as “Ha’emek - The Valley”” (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Jezreel.html)
Today the specific place Jezreel is of little importance, strategic or otherwise. They also note that Megido is even less important.
Yizre’el is no longer a city, but rather a kibbutz established by demobilized Palmach soldiers in 1948. And the Megiddo of today is a tel that is home to a hoard of archaeological ruins. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Jezreel.html
The only strategic value is the valley being on the route from Egypt to Mesopotamia. “The importance of the valley in terms of transportation continues to this day, as many trucks from Amman, Jordan travel through it on their way the port of Haifa”( Jewish virtual library source as above). We will return to this, after considering the days of Jezreel.
A day of Jezreel: Gideon
The Israelites when they entered the Holy land had no chariots, and were discouraged from relying on them. For the most part, the hilly terrain of the mountains of Israel meant that they were of no use. When Israel took the land, there is no record they fought the Canaanites in the valley Jezreel, and yet the Canaanite people were destroyed and displaced. This shows the difficulties faced by those adhering to conventional warfare in Israel. Despite modern weapons, conquest is still reliant on taking strong cities.
It seems the Midainites and Amakekites forgot the problems of relying on chariots. In areas with level plains, chariots might be very useful. After Gideon had destroyed the idolatrous grove, the Midianites put on a show of force.
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. (Judges 6:33)
From beside the hill of Moreh, Gideon and a mere 300 men in the hours of darkness cause fright through the camp,
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath. (Judges 7:22)
This victory in the valley of Jezreel led to Gideon giving authority to Yahweh only.
And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you. (Judges 8:23)
A day of Jezreel: David & Saul
When the Philistines gathered to take on Israel's king, Saul, they went up to Aphek. Saul's forces camped by a fountain in Jezreel (1 Sam 29:1). David was providentially sent back by the Philistines, but Saul was slain that day. It was said specifically the news of his death come from Jezreel. The news led to Jonathan's son being made lame.
And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth. (2Samuel 4:4)
Jezreel was one of the places of the kingdom of Saul's son.
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. (2 Samuel 2:8-9)
A day of Jezreel: Elijah
Jezreel featured when at Mt Carmel Elijah proved before the people of Israel and Ahab their King that Yahweh was the only Power of heaven. After 3 years of drought Yahweh sent rain and it was enough rain to bog down Ahab's iron chariot,
It came to pass at the seventh time, that he (the servant said) said, “Behold, there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.”
And he (Elijah) said, “Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.”
And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. (1Kings 18:44-46)
A day of Jezreel: Ahab
When Ahab coveted Naboth the Jezreelite's vineyard, Jezebel killed to obtain it. Elijah comes to Ahab,
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD. Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity..And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. (1Ki 21:20-23)
Jehu executes this judgement at Jezreel, riding a chariot,
So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram. (2Ki 9:16)
And Joram the son of Ahab is struck by Jehu's arrow in his chariot at Jezreel,
And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah. And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. (2Kings 9:21-24)
Chronicles adds this comment,
And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. (2Chronicles 22:7)
Then afterwards hearing of the dogs having eaten Jezebel, Jehu says
This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: (2Kings 9:36)
Jezreel was the place of the judgement of the house of Ahab. Jehu from there sent a letter to slay all Ahab's sons, and there slew all that had supported Ahab (2 kings).
2) The great day of Jezreel: Hosea
The last four places where Jezreel is mentioned are all in the book of Hosea. Hosea lived during the reign of Jeroboam II of Jehu's house who had increased the power of Israel's kingdom, based at Jezreel.
And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. (Hosea 1:4-5)
This seems fulfilled when Jehu's house meets it's end in Jezreel,
In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah (Uzziah) king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass. (2Kings 15:8-12)
From that time no king in Israel had any power. Hosea is told what would happen to Israel after this.
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. (Hos 1:6-9)
Then there is a change in tone. The prophecy begins with “Yet” or “But”,
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. (Hosea 1:10-11)
Looking at the history of Israel after the end of Jehu's house we see Josiah as king of Judah after the carrying away of most of Israel, ruling over Israel,
He ( Josiah) burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. (2Chronicles 34:5-7)
When Josiah asks of Yahweh the fate of the nation he mentions first the remnants of Israel,
Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book. (2Ch 34:21)
Though it is not specifically said that Israel made Josiah their king, in effect he was their king.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. (2Chronicles 34:33)
Does this condition fulfil the prophecy of Hosea? The destruction of Jehu's kingdom, which was based in Jezreel, was great. Because of this, many years later, Josiah is able to unite the people of Israel and Judah in their worship.
But it was for a remnant of Israel. Israel in those days was not as many as the sand of the sea. Josiah called them 'those left in Israel'. It was in addition for only a few years. And also despite Josiah's work Yahweh was not happy with the people. Through Jeremiah they are reprimanded in words that remind us of Hosea's whorish wife,
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. (Jeremiah 3:6-8)
Not my people - to my people
The last reference to Jezreel by Hosea ties a few thoughts together. The passage begins,
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. (Hosea 2:1-3)
He speaks of the utter destruction that came upon Israel and Judah,
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. (Hos 2:10-11)
Then after that we see the next stage,
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. (Hosea 2:14)
When has Israel been spoken to in the wilderness? Was it not when finally, Britain gave her a place by the Balfour declaration. Weren't they words of comfort?
Then,
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor (Troubled) for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. (Hosea 2:15)
Vineyards were among the first crops to be established with the first Aliyah. Then it came to be that the only entry to the Holy Land was though a door, or entrance, of hope. It is a well known fact that Aliyah-Bet operation to bring Jews to Palestine had a peculiar effect.
“Aliya Bet after WW-II had a huge impact: it brought the sympathy and support of the world public opinion to the Zionist cause, and demonstrated the resolve of the Jewish people to pursue independence. Thus, it was a major factor (with many historians thinking THE factor) in leading the United Nations to pass its historic resolution of the 29th of November 1947, which paved the way to the establishment of the State of Israel...
The Balfour Declaration and the conquest of Palestine by the British armed forces raised the hopes of the building of the Jewish Homeland “in the near future”,
In 1944, when the Soviet Army started its advance to the West, following the German defeat at Stalingrad, the remnants of the Holocaust started to move. Those that were in the Eastern European countries started to move in the direction of Western Europe and the Mediterranean, or the Black Sea, as the start of their journey to the Land of Israel. These desperate and helpless Jews saw Palestine as their only ray of hope.
Jews who had been with the partisans or had been hiding in forests; or who were hiding in monasteries in various countries, gathered in a rising stream and moved in the direction of Aliya, immigration to Palestine. That was the only path left to them despite the White Paper.
The Jews saw Palestine as the only land in which they could renew their lives. This was the result of years of suffering and despair, where Palestine remained their only hope. http://www.palyam.org/English/Hahapala/mainpage
From an personal account of an American Jew who illegally immigrated via France and ended up at Cyrus, there is an eyewitness of this hope which he calls 'high morale',
The voyage of the Lanegev was long and arduous, plagued by storms, and at times perilous. It was typical of the voyages of dozens of ships of the Hagana that sailed the Mediterranean during that period. They were usually old ships, overloaded, terribly crowded, and lacking in adequate sanitary facilities. But two things characterized all of them: the high morale of the passengers, who, despite the utter lack of physical comfort, knew that they were at last going home; http://www.palyam.org/Hahapala/Teur_haflagot/Lanegev_kaufman1
The connection of the Aliyah-Bet operation to the declaration of the state of Israel is direct,
American and Canadian involvement in the campaign started with David Ben Gurion's visit to the U.S. immediately after World War II to launch a mobilization of financial and other resources on behalf of early Jewish statehood in Palestine. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Immigration/aliyahbet.html
This hope expressed is in the names of the illegal ships running the blockade,
Tradewinds/Hatikva (Hope) 1,422 May 1947
President Warfield/Exodus 4,493 July 1947
Paducah/Geula (Redemption) 1,385 October 1947
Northland/Jewish State 2,664 October 1947
Pan York/Ingathering of Exiles 7,557 December 1947
Pan Crescent/Independence 7,612 December 1947
Jewish Virtal Library: aliyahbet
Exodus was the most famous of them. It was made world famous by the events surrounding it and by a book and movie called 'Exodus'. The Exodus captures what Hosea was told. It is also famous that the Jews coming to Israel sang and danced on arrival.
“As in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt” equals 'the Exodus'.
They shall hear Jezreel
The prophet Hosea returns to the theme begun when he penned, “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, ...there it shall be said unto them, 'Ye are the sons of the living God.' Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.” (Hosea 1:10-11)
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shall call me Ishi; and shall call me no more Baali. For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. (Hos 2:16-23)
The language is rich in images. When the people are many again, they become 'sons'. They also become, as a people, 'betrothed' and 'married' to Yahweh. Their land had been cursed, but instead of a curse there would be a covenant of blessing. That blessing would include peace so they can 'lie down'. A people who had wandered and found no rest in the nations, are to be at peace and 'lie down.'
Then Yahweh Elohim will hear the 'heavens', or the rulers, who in turn will hear the 'earth', or the people (in a vast change from serving only themselves). And the people will hear the goodness of the land, and they all shall hear 'El shall sow.' This people will be 'sown' in the earth to bring forth fruit to Yahweh. The indication is that the mercy is an unmerited gift.
3) Gathered to appoint One Head
The last point is interesting as Hosea makes a specific prophecy,
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: Hosea 1:11
Why Jezreel should be mentioned is curious. Is this to be a place where the people will gather in the future? Hosea writes they shall 'come up', indicating a physical gathering in one place. Will that place be Jezreel or is it used for what the name means? Jezreel today is a place of no importance, but it is close to the armistice line defining modern Israel and the land called 'Judea and Samaria.'
The place name is loaded. The day of Jezreel historically was one of destruction of Yahweh's enemies and the worship of idolatry: from Gideon to Jehu.
Baal means 'lord' as Hosea makes clear. The people shall not call Yahweh any more more 'Baali', which translated is 'my lord'. In the time of Christ the Jews had ceased from pronouncing the name, and used 'Lord'. Yahweh so disliked the term as it was so long used for false worship (as it is today), that it will be replaced with 'ishi.' We might ponder just what it means for us. In a Hebrew Bible, the name of our Creator is written and we can know its meaning, but Jews read 'lord'. This habit is evident also among Christians. It indicates a distance. Who calls their loved ones by title rather than their name? Instead of a name our Creator has been given the title 'Lord'. But that is not what He wrote in his book. It is not what He asked to be called. He offers the mercy of betrothal to his people of Israel. The analogy of betrothal is used a few times in the New Testament. 'My Baal', or as translated 'my Lord', will not be used by the people of God.
There is one more direct connection. That of the oppression of false worship and the river Kishon.
4) Kishon
The Kishon River is a 70-km-long perennial stream in Israel. Its source is the Gilboa mountains, and it flows in a west-northwesterly direction through the Jezreel Valley, emptying into the Haifa Bay in the Mediterranean Sea. Wikipedia.
The river Kishon has a source in the Gilboa mountains near Bet She'an and it goes past Jezreel on its way down the Jezreel valley to the sea at Haifa near the foot of Carmel. After defeating the prophets of Baal,
Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. (1Kings 18:40)
Why do this? Why did they go to the effort to slay them at the river and not on the mountain? Why did Elijah take them and all the people with him all the way down the mount to the river to slay them? After that Elijah then goes back up Mt Carmel and prayed for rain. This rain must have indeed washed away the blood and bodies of the slain. Elijah indicated that Ahab had to travel fast as the rain would flood the way, so he could not drive his chariot. So Elijah ran before him.
The flooding of the river Kishon features in Deborah's song of the destruction of Sisera.
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart. Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. (Judges 5:9-21)
The reason why Sisera had to flee on foot was that when the river flooded his 900 chariots of iron were made useless, as the Jezreel valley became a swamp. Modern chariots have much the same problem. Will the river Kishon feature in the future in disabling modern chariots?
Will Jezreel become an important place again in the future?
5) Breaking the Bow
After the harvest, the 'cutting down', of the harvest of the place named Armagedon in the valley of Jehospahat (which has nothing to do with Megido) then is then a new 'sowing' at the place called Jezreel as El shall 'sow' the people of Israel into the whole earth. Will a gathering occur at the place called 'the Mighty shall sow'? Jezreel is on a high place overlooking the logical, and historical, place for the highway out of Egypt to Mesopotamia. It is written specifically,
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. (Isaiah 19:23)
Though not important now, ancient Jezreel may become an important rest point.
In context the greatness of Jezreel seems to be about the good to be brought to the earth. The JPS translators of the Hebrew Tanakh footnotes the English translation of “the marvellous day of Jezreel”, as “the day when the name Jezreel will convey a promise (2:23-25) instead of a threat (1:4-5).” The things of joy and prosperity for life on earth, 'corn' and 'wine' and 'oil' shall all hear Yisre'el, as El himself shall sow. In the valley of Jezreel, Yahweh broke the bow of Israel (Hosea 1:5), then, when he makes a covenant for Israel with the animals, birds and creeping things, he will break the bow (and sword and battle) out of all the earth. (Hosea 2:18). To break the bow brings peace.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King comes unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. (Zechariah 9:9-10)
This links to Hosea where they gather to appoint one head. The reference to the removal of the bow appears also in Ezekiel 39 relating to Gog's forces
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 39:3-5)
Gog must fall on the mountains of Israel, and the valley of Jezreel is not the mountains of Israel.
Is the 'open field' on the mountains of Israel, or a final place of defeat somewhere else? The valley of Jezreel might be called an open field. One cannot be dogmatic, as it is said that the enemy forces 'cover the land.' The end is that the battle-bow is cut off from that time forward. This is the emphasis of the removal of the bow and Jezreel.
Jezreel is to be a place where peace breaks forth and a place of new sowing. The end of the first victory in the valley of Jezreel is that Gideon (whose name means 'one who cuts down', or 'fells') declares that Yahweh reigns. The day when Yahweh reigns openly on the earth will be great indeed..
For more see Armageddon, not Megiddo
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