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Smith's Bible Dictionary
town probably, were a temple and grove of Eastward, with an establishment of 400 priests supported
by Jezebel. (1 Kings 16:33; 2 Kings 10:11) The palace of Ahab, (1 Kings 21:1; 18:46) probably
containing his “ivory house,” (1 Kings 22:39) was on the eastern side of the city, forming part of
the city wall. Comp. (1 Kings 21:1; 2 Kings 9:25,30,33) Whether the vineyard of Naboth was here
or at Samaria is a doubtful question. Still in the same eastern direction are two springs, one 12
minutes from the town, the other 20 minutes. The latter, probably from both its size and its situation,
was known as “the spring of Jezreel.” With the fall of the house of Ahab the glory of Jezreel
departed.
•A town in Judah, in the neighborhood of the southern Carmel. (Joshua 15:56) Here David in his
wanderings took Ahinoam the Israelites for his first wife. (1 Samuel 27:3; 30:5)
•The eldest son of the prophet Hosea. (Hosea 1:4)
(seed of God), a descendant of the father or founder of Etam, of the line of Judah. (1 Chronicles
4:3) (B.C. about 1445).
Jezreelitess
a woman of Jezreel. (1 Samuel 27:3; 30:5; 2 Samuel 2:2; 3:2; 1 Chronicles 3:1)
Jibsam
(pleasant), one of the sons of Tola, the son of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:2) (B.C. 1017.)
Jidlaph
(weeping), a son of Nahor. (Genesis 22:22)
Jimna
(prosperity), the first-born of Asher. (Numbers 26:44) He is elsewhere called in the Authorized
Version Jimnah, (Genesis 46:17) and Imnah. (1 Chronicles 7:30)
Jimnah
= Jimna = Imnah. (Genesis 46:17)
Jimnites, The
descendants of the preceding. (Numbers 26:44)
Jinah
(lamentation), a city of Judah, on the extreme south boundary of the tribe, next to Edom. (Joshua
15:22)
Jiphtah
(whom God sets free), one of the cities of Judah in the maritime lowland, or Shefelah. (Joshua
15:43) It has not yet been met with.
Jiphthahel
(which God opens), The valley of, a valley which served as one of the landmarks for the boundary
of both Zebulun, (Joshua 19:14) and Asher. (Joshua 19:27) Dr. Robinson suggests that Jiphthah-el
was identical with Jotapata, and that they survive in the modern Jefat, a village in the mountains
of Galilee, halfway between the Bay of Accre and the Lake of Gennesareth.
Jirjathaim
(the two cities).
•On the east of the Jordan, one of the places which were taken possession of and rebuilt by the
Reubenites, and had fresh names conferred on them, (Numbers 32:37) and see (Numbers 32:38)
the first and last of which are known with some tolerable degree of certainty. (Joshua 12:19) It
existed in the time of Jeremiah, (Jeremiah 48:1,23) and Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 25:9) In the three passages
named the Authorized Version gives the name Kiriathaim. By Eusebius it appears to have been
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