to the brothers and sisters which close this salvation speech. Jezreel (v. 11) begins, then, the sequence in which the name of each child is transformed from a sign of judgment to a sign of grace. The names were coined with this reversal in mind: (1) Jezreel is deliberately ambiguous—God will both scatter in judgment and sow in restoration (see on v. 4); and (2) beginning the other two names with ‘not’ meant that their negative force could be removed with the stroke of a pen—which is precisely what