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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Jezebel (Queen living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
A princess of Sidon, married to Ahab to seal an alliance. As queen she pushed Baal worship and hunted down Yahweh's prophets, and when Naboth would not sell his vineyard she had him framed and stoned. Elijah said dogs would eat her. When Jehu came, she did her makeup and her hair and met him at a window, and he had her thrown down.
A princess of Sidon, married to Ahab to seal an alliance. As queen she pushed Baal worship and hunted down Yahweh's prophets, and when Naboth would not sell his vineyard she had him framed and stoned. Elijah said dogs would eat her. When Jehu came, she did her makeup and her hair and met him at a window, and he had her thrown down.
Jezebel was a Phoenician princess, daughter of the king of Sidon, whom Ahab married to cement a political alliance, and she used her position as queen to aggressively promote Baal worship and hunt down Yahweh's prophets across Israel. When Naboth refused to sell Ahab a vineyard, Jezebel arranged false charges that got Naboth stoned to death so Ahab could take the land, a crime Elijah confronted directly, prophesying that dogs would eat her body. Years later, when Jehu seized the throne in a violent coup, Jezebel put on makeup and dressed her hair before facing him from a window, and Jehu had her thrown down and left for the dogs, exactly as Elijah had said.
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- 1 Kings 16:31
- 1 Kings 18:4
- 1 Kings 18:13
- 1 Kings 18:19
- 1 Kings 19:1
- 1 Kings 19:2
- 1 Kings 21:5
- 1 Kings 21:7
- 1 Kings 21:11
- 1 Kings 21:14
- 1 Kings 21:15
- 1 Kings 21:23
- 1 Kings 21:25
- 2 Kings 9:7
- 2 Kings 9:10
- 2 Kings 9:22
- 2 Kings 9:30
- 2 Kings 9:36
- 2 Kings 9:37
