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Sep 28, 2022 · When Jezebel learned of the killing, she furiously vowed to have Elijah killed, forcing him to flee for his life (I Kings 18:19–19:3). Murderous Envy Another cruel act credited to Jezebel is written in I Kings 21:5–16.
Dec 5, 2023 · Queen Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon, and the wife of Ahab, king of Israel. Jezebel promoted the worship of false gods in Israel, harassed and killed God’s prophets, and arranged for an innocent man to be falsely charged and executed.
Known for: Jezebel, an evil queen, was the wife of King Ahab. She persecuted and tried to destroy God’s prophets, established Baal worship throughout Israel, and turned people away from the God who had rescued them from slavery in Egypt. Hometown: Jezebel came from Sidon, a Phoenician seacoast city.
The cosmetics which Jezebel applied before her death also led some Christians to associate makeup with vice. In the Middle Ages, the chronicler Matthew Paris criticised Isabella of Angoulême, the queen consort of John, King of England, by writing that she was "more Jezebel than Isabel".
- c. 852 BCE, Tel Jezreel
- Canaanite religion
- Ithobaal I
- King Ahab
Jan 4, 2022 · Jezebel’s gruesome death was also predicted by Elijah ( 1 Kings 21:23 ). True to the prophecy, Ahab was killed in a battle with Syria. Later, Jezebel was thrown from a tower, “and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her” ( 2 Kings 9:33 ).
2 Kings 9:30-10:36. New International Version. Jezebel Killed. 30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window. 31 As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[ a]
Mar 10, 2020 · The famous scene from II Kings 9:30 in which Jezebel applies make-up before her death, which has traditionally been interpreted as her attempt to seduce Jehu to spare her life, and has largely led to her reputation as a 'whore', is now believed by some scholars to be the appropriate action of a Princess of Sidon and Queen of Israel, preparing ...
