Hos 1:4 | JFB | STEP | 4. Jezreel —that is, "God will scatter" (compare ). It was the royal city of Ahab and his successors, in the tribe of Issachar. Here Jehu exercised his greatest cruelties ( ). There is in the name an allusion to "Israel" by a play of letters and sounds.

Hosea 1:4

4. Jezreel—that is, "God will scatter" (compare Zec 10:9). It was the royal city of Ahab and his successors, in the tribe of Issachar. Here Jehu exercised his greatest cruelties (2Ki 9:16, 25, 33; 10:11, 14, 17). There is in the name an allusion to "Israel" by a play of letters and sounds.