JEZREEL, a town of Issachar, where the kings of Israel had a palace, but after the terrible end of Jezebel and the house of Ahab, the court seems to have fled from the place. In the days of Eusebius and Jerome it was still known by the names of Esdrela and Stradela. After a lapse of seven centuries, it is mentioned in the history of the Crusades under the name of Pavia Gerinum, the Zerin of the Arabs. Zerin is situate on a rocky brow at the N.W. termination of Mount Gilboa, and consists only of twenty ruinous huts.