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AX2EFY - Licenced Caption DSC06099 Description The Jezreel Valley ; , Emek Yizrael, also known as the Plain of Esdraelon (Esdraelon is the Koine Greek rendering of Jezreel), and as the Zirin Valley (, Sahel Zir'in), and as the Meadow of Amr's son (مرج بن عامر, Marj Ibn Amer), is a large plain and inland valley in the south of the Lower Galilee of Israel, on the northern border of the West Bank, just north of the modern area of Jenin. The valley was once the channel by which the Dead Sea (to the southeast of the valley) connected to the Mediterranean Sea; around two million years ago, the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Great Rift Valley rose to such a degree that this connection was severed, and periodic floods from the Mediterranean Sea were interrupted, resulting in the Dead Sea no longer having an outlet, and becoming heavily saline.palpitation, a fountain near which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day when they encountered and routed the Midianites (Judg. 7). It was south of the hill Moreh. The present 'Ain Jalud ("Goliath's Fountain"), south of Jezreel and nearly opposite Shunem, is probably the fountain here referred to (7:4, 5). Keywords Gilboa, is, a, ridge, above, the, Valley, of, Jezreel, in, Israel., The, ridge, extends, east-west, and, is, west, of, the, Jordan, River., The, name, is, referenced, in, the, Hebrew, Bible,, sometimes, as, Mount, Gilboa., The, ridge, also, lent, its, name, to, the, second, battle, (the, Battle, of, Gilboa), fought, in, the, valley, below,, in, which, the, Philistines, defeated, Saul, the, King, and, Israel., (Book, of, Samuel)