Jezebel

Jezebel and Ahab meeting Elijah at Naboth's vineyard ~~before everyone gets plastered~~

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Jezebel is a Biblical queen, and as we'll see later, one of the reasons why some fundies despise women.

## Contents

* 1 In the Bible
* 2 Historicity
* 3 Legacy
* 4 Notes
* 5 References

## In the Bible[edit]

She appears in 1 Kings (1 Kings 16:31) as a Sidonian (i.e., Phoenician) princess who married King Ahab in the time when the Kingdom of Israel was split in two kingdoms: the northern one (Samaria) and the southern one (Judah), Ahab being from the former.

What no one could have predicted is that it was tradition among Phoenicians that the queen was also the high priestess of the goddess Astarte, so she'd be more active than usual in the Hebrew monarchy.[1]

The best was still to come, as according to 1 Kings 18:1, she got rid of Yahweh's prophets minus one hundred of them who were rescued and hidden in a cave by Obadiah (Ahab's overseer), and brought instead more than eight hundred prophets (read: priests) of the gods Baal and Asherah during a famine that took place in Samaria. As the prophet Elijah disliked how the worship of Baal was overtaking that of Yahweh, he decided to challenge the prophets brought by Jezebel to see how powerful their deities were[note 1] at Mount Carmel, with all the population of Israel as spectators.

This being the Bible, naturally nothing happened when the priests of Baal and Asherah attempted to call their gods, but when Elijah called Yahweh, a ~~flame strike spell cast by Elijah~~ fire from the skies devoured the offerings for the latter. Of course, all those prophets were also slaughtered by the Israelites and Elijah pissed Jezebel off so much that he had to hide in the wilderness, lamenting how his people had given up Yahweh in exchange for Baal.

Later on, King Ahab wanted to buy a vineyard close to the royal palace to expand his gardens. Its owner, Naboth, refused even if Ahab even offered the former a better one, and Jezebel got rid of him by inciting the elders to accuse that man of blasphemy, getting him stoned to death. Elijah popped up when Ahab appeared by the vineyard, telling him that as presumably divine punishment for that act, both the King and Queen would die, the latter devoured by dogs, and the royal line would be history.

As one could again expect, Ahab died three years later as well as his son Ahaziah, who succeeded him in the throne being replaced by his brother Joram. Elijah's successor Elisha declared Jehu, commander of Joram's army, as king to avenge how Yahweh's prophets and his people were treated by Jezebel, and also of course Joram was killed by Jehu. The latter went to the royal palace, finding Jezebel dressed in all the finery of a queen, and naturally she was thrown out by her servants from the window, trampled by Jehu's horse, and devoured by dogs leaving behind to be buried little more than her skull and her feet.

## Historicity[edit]

According to historicists, like other characters on the Bible, Jezebel's history is less of a real character and more of a fictional one,[2] with the events described in the Bible having been compiled centuries after the real Jezebel had lived and criticizing from a monotheistic perspective the polytheistic one that existed in that epoch, considered sinful.[3]

## Legacy[edit]

Needless to say after what the Bible describes, and like the no less fictional Semiramis even if unlike the former she is a Biblical character, Jezebel has been used as proof by certain fundies of why (not God-fearing at least) women cannot be rulers (queens, presidents, majors, whatever). Jezebel has ended also as a synonym not only of a false prophet(ess) but also of promiscuous and controlling women, most notably applied to black ones., being often used by such people as an insult against women they dislike for whatever reasons especially if such women occupy positions of power.

Other fundamentalists — mix-in the Jezebel mentioned in Revelation 2:20, who is either totally unrelated to her or simply a reference to that Old Testament queen — claim she's a demoness who is all over the Bible because she hates humans and loves both to tempt them and possess people in power — depending on their level of fundieness from people of both sexes to just females — to basically screw God and His prophets, pastors, etc. explaining that way the rise of fornication, LGBTQ support, pornography, abortion, radical feminism, persecution of so-called prophets, witchcraft, etc.[4]

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ The Bible (KJV) mentions "groves", which of course should be translated as "Asherah" as described on the article about her.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ "Jezebel"
2. ↑ The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman (2001) Free Press. ISBN 0684869128.
3. ↑ New Bible Commentary, edited by Gordon J. Wenham et al. (1994) IVP Academic. 21st Century Edition. ISBN 0830814426.
4. ↑ Christian Author: Beware the Emasculating Spirit of Jezebel

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Articles about the Bible

Old Testament: |  Goliath • Tamar • Tower of Babel • Abel • Joseph (Old Testament) • Firmament • Baal • Noah • Isaac • Ishmael • Amalekites • Curse of Ham • Jacob • Sodom and Gomorrah • Ezekiel's wheel • Lot • Nephilim • G'Tach • Joseph was Imhotep • Moses • Global flood • Cain • Gibeah • Abraham • Old Testament • Incubus and succubus myths • King David • Serpent seed doctrine • Leviathan • Messiah • Mark of Cain • Asherah • Nimrod • Sirach • Adam and Eve • Moloch • Book of Joel • Garden of Eden • Satan • List of actions prohibited by the Bible •
| Torah: |  Torah • Book of Exodus • Book of Genesis • Book of Leviticus • Book of Numbers • Book of Zechariah • Book of Deuteronomy •
| Old Testament History: |  Book of Esther • Book of Ezra • Book of Judges • Book of Ruth • Books of Chronicles • Books of Kings • Books of Samuel • Book of Joshua •
| Old Testament Wisdom: |  Ecclesiastes • Song of Solomon • Book of Job • Book of Proverbs • Book of Psalms •
| Major and Minor Prophets: |  Book of Daniel • Book of Ezekiel • Book of Isaiah • Book of Lamentations • Book of Jeremiah •
New Testament: |  Mary Magdalene • New Testament • Mary (mother of Jesus) • Joseph of Arimathea • Paul of Tarsus • Good Samaritan • Authorship of the New Testament • Magi • John the Baptist • Principalities and powers • Joseph (husband of Mary) • Nag Hammadi library • Messiah • Jesus • Gospel of Barnabas • Peter the Apostle • Pontius Pilate • Judas Iscariot • Book of Revelation •
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| Pauline Epistles: |  Corinthians • Galatians • Ephesians • Colossians • Epistle to the Philippians • Epistle to Philemon • Epistle to the Romans • Epistle to Titus • First Epistle to the Thessalonians • Second Epistle to the Thessalonians • Second Epistle to Timothy • First Epistle to Timothy •
| General Epistles: |  Epistle of Jude • Epistle of James • Epistle to the Hebrews • First Epistle of John • First Epistle of Peter • Second Epistle of John • Second Epistle of Peter • Third Epistle of John •
Bible analysis: |  Apocalyptic literature • Authorship of the New Testament • Bible interpolation • Biblical sexism • Bibliolatry • Documentary hypothesis • Evidence for the Exodus • Gospels • Horizontal reading • King James Only • Pesher • Q gospel • Septuagint • Skeptic's Annotated Bible • Ten Commandments • Torah • Bible translation • Word of God • Biblical literalism • Biblical contradictions • List of mistakes made by God • Abomination • Firmament • G'Tach • Arsenokoites • Genealogy of Jesus • Nag Hammadi library • Noah's Ark • Annotated Bible • Slavery in the Bible • Examples of God personally killing people • Herod • The Brick Testament • Evidence against a recent creation • EvilBible.com • List of actions prohibited by the Bible • Biblical scientific errors •
| Bible translations: |  Cockney Bible • Douay-Rheims • Jefferson Bible • King James Only • Septuagint • Vetus Latina • Bible translation • Annotated Bible •
| Apocrypha: |  Didache • Apocrypha • Nag Hammadi library • Book of Judith • 2 Maccabees • 3 Maccabees • 4 Maccabees • Books of Enoch • Books of the Maccabees • Gospel of Judas • Gospel of Mary • Gospel of Philip • Gospel of Thomas • Infancy Gospel of James • Infancy Gospel of Thomas • 1 Maccabees •
Biblical figures: |  Abel • Cain • Ishmael • Jacob • Joseph of Arimathea • Joseph (Old Testament) • Mary (mother of Jesus) • Noah • Paul of Tarsus • Mary Magdalene • Lot • Goliath • Nephilim • Moses • YHWH • Amalekites • Baal • King David • Joseph (husband of Mary) • God • Jesus • Asherah • Nimrod • Habakkuk • Adam and Eve • Herod • Pontius Pilate • Tamar • Judas Iscariot • Satan •
Bible woo: |  Jesus diet • Name it and claim it • Snake handling • Speaking in tongues • Spiritual warfare • The Bible Code • Gematria • Stigmata • Biblical longevity • Hanzi of Genesis • Dr. Bronner's Soap • Presidential Prayer Team • Trinity Broadcasting Network • Zecharia Sitchin • James Ussher • Creation Week • Zion Oil and Gas • The Drama of the Lost Disciples • Roman Piso • Jose Luis de Jesús • Prayer • Black Hebrew Israelites • Jonathan Otto • Benny Hinn • Presents Of God Ministry • Solfeggio frequencies • Ken Ham • Harold Camping • Institute for Creation Research • Steve Quayle • Kabbalah Center • Acharya S • Christian Identity • Peter J. Peters • Ezekiel's wheel • Creation Research • Biblical scientific foreknowledge • British Israelism •
| Scientific foreknowledge: |  Gaps between Science and the Bible • Scientific Facts in the Bible: 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin • Science Confirms the Bible • Eternal Productions: 101 Scientific Facts and Foreknowledge • Modern Science in the Bible • Biblical scientific foreknowledge •