A town of Issachar ([Josh. 19:18](/josh#Josh.19.18)), where the kings of Israel often resided ([1 Kings 18:45](/1kgs#1Kgs.18.45); [21:1](/1kgs#1Kgs.21.1); [2 Kings 9:30](/2kgs#2Kgs.9.30)). Here Elijah met Ahab, Jehu, and Bidkar; and here Jehu executed his dreadful commission against the house of Ahab ([2 Kings 9:14-37](/2kgs#2Kgs.9.14); [10:1-11](/2kgs#2Kgs.10.1)). It has been identified with the modern Zerin, on the most western point of the range of Gilboa, reaching down into the great and fertile valley of Jezreel, to which it gave its name.