What All Did Jezebel Do?ġ Kings 16-18 details how because Jezebel and Ahab promoted idolatry, God brought a drought that ended with Elijah challenging the prophets of Baal to see which god would light an altar on fire. The last chapters of 1 Kings and the ninth and 10th chapters of 2 Kings tell the story of Jezebel, Ahab, and their arguments with God’s prophets (especially Elijah). Sidonians worshipped several pagan gods, most notably Baal, and Ahab made the worship of Baal and Asherah acceptable in Israel. 1 Kings 16:31 highlights that Ahab was already sinning against God before they married, but made it worse by violating commands against Israelites marrying foreigners. She married Ahab son of Omri, king of Israel. Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal king of Sidon. The more we know about her story, the more we get a sense of how mysterious and vindictive she was. Jezebel is one of the Bible’s more interesting characters, notable for the many evil things she did and for having one of the Bible’s most dramatic death scenes. Is Jezebel the Evillest Woman in the Entire Bible? Her name afterward came to be used as the synonym for a wicked woman ( Revelation 2:20). She was immediately consumed by the dogs of the street ( 2 Kings 9:7-37), according to the word of Elijah the Tishbite ( 1 Kings 21:19). As Jehu rode into the gates of Jezreel, she looked out at the window of the palace, and said, "Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?" He looked up and called to her chamberlains, who instantly threw her from the window so that she was dashed in pieces on the street, and his horses trod her under their feet. Her conduct was in many respects very disastrous to the kingdom both of Israel and Judah ( 21:1-29). The idolatry, too, was of the most debased and sensual kind." Four hundred and fifty prophets ministered under her care to Baal, besides four hundred prophets of the groves, which ate at her table ( 1 Kings 18:19). Guided by no principle, restrained by no fear of either God or man, passionate in her attachment to her heathen worship, she spared no pains to maintain idolatry around her in all its splendor.
She is the first great instigator of persecution against the saints of God. Jezebel has stamped her name on history as the representative of all that is designing, crafty, malicious, revengeful, and cruel. This was the "first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with a heathen princess and the alliance was in this case of a peculiarly disastrous kind. Jezebel has come to be recognized as a model of the wicked woman, embodying the characteristics of cruelty, greed, and vanity.
After her fall and death, he ordered that she be buried as a king’s daughter, however, it was found that dogs had eaten most of her body, just as Elijah had predicted. Looking down from her window, she mocked him, and Jehu commanded her eunuchs to toss her out of the window. Anticipating him, she decorated herself in fancy clothing for the occasion. Jehu then killed Jehoram and sought to overthrow Jezebel and take his place as ruler of Israel. He anointed a militant leader named Jehu to be king of Israel, an order that prompted civil war as Jehoram, Jezebel’s son, then ruled. Elijah’s heir, Elisha the prophet, continued the determination to end Baal worship. Some years after, Ahab died in fighting with the Syrians and Jezebel continued on for nearly another ten years. Elijah faced Ahab in the vineyard, prophesying that he and all his successors would be slain and that dogs would devour Jezebel. When Naboth declined to part with his vineyard as “the inheritance of my fathers” and Jezebel falsely accused him of cursing “God and the king,” which resulted in Naboth’s death by stoning.
It was owned by a civilian, Naboth of Jezreel. Next to Ahab’s dwelling was a vineyard, which he envied and desired. Murderous EnvyĪnother cruel act credited to Jezebel is written in I Kings 21:5–16. 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). Elijah later had the Baal priests killed after they had failed in a contest with him to see which God would answer their prayers to inflame a bull offering, Baal or Yahweh. These evil and tyrannical works motivated the righteous vengeance of Elijah who correctly predicted the encounter of a severe drought as divine retribution against Jezebel. As a woman seeking more power, she sought to destroy those who questioned her, and most of the prophets of Yahweh were murdered at her request. When Jezebel married Ahab, she influenced him to worship Baal, a nature god.
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