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Jezreel is also mentioned in the book of Hosea where God commands Hosea to name his son "Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel" . God also tells Hosea as to a future event, "I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
Hosea 1 relates how Hosea has three children, a son called Jezreel, a daughter Lo-Ruhamah and another son Lo-Ammi. All the names are described in the text as having symbolic meaning, reflecting the relationship between God and Israel. Jezreel is named after the valley of that name. Lo-Ruhamah is named to denote the ruined condition of the ...
Matthew 2:13 cites Hosea's prophecy in Hosea 11:1 that God would call His Son out of Egypt as foretelling the flight into Egypt and return to Israel of Joseph, Mary, and the infant Jesus. [17] [18] In Luke 23:30, Jesus referenced Hosea 10:8 when he said "Then they will begin to say to the mountains 'Cover us" and to the hills, 'Fall on us'.'. [19]
The name Hosea seems to have been common, and is derived from a related verb meaning 'salvation'. Numbers 13:16 states that Hosea was the original name of Joshua, son of Nun until Moses gave him the longer, theophoric name Yehoshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻֽׁעַ, romanized: Yēhōšūaʿ) incorporating an abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton.
Lo-Ammi (Hebrew for "not my people") was the youngest son of Hosea and Gomer.He had an older brother named Jezreel and an older sister named Lo-Ruhamah. God commanded Hosea to name him "Lo-Ammi" to symbolize his anger with the people of Israel (see Hosea 1:1–9).
Nonetheless, according to the Book of Hosea, God punished the House of Jehu through the hands of the Assyrians for Jehu's massacre at Jezreel, [17] and some Biblical commentators reasoned that this was because Jehu's motives may not have been entirely pure in his massacre. [18]
It is generally identified as a city which later called "Arbela" by the Greeks; one suggested location places it about 15 miles west of Nazareth, and 10 miles from Jezreel, thus it should lay somewhere in the middle of the valley of Jezreel, and can be linked to the fulfillment of Hosea's earlier prophecy that "God brake the bow of Israel in ...
Hosea 5 is the fifth chapter ... regarded the same as the Mountain of the Transfiguration in the midst of the plain of Jezreel or ... ("I am thy servant and thy son ...