or JEZREEL, a town in the north of Samaria, towards Mount Carmel, where stood a palace of the kings of Israel, (1 Kings xxi. 18.) On the borders of Galilee (Joshua xix.) said to be one of the towns of Issachar.—The valley of Jezreel (Judges vi. 17.) was situated to the north of the town, running from west to east for ten miles, between two mountains; the one to the north, commonly called Hermon, near Mount Tabor; the other Gilboa: in breadth two miles.

an island of France, in Provence, and the most eastern of the three before the harbour of Marseilles. It is very well fortified, and its port one of the best in the Mediterranean.