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The popular historian Lesley Hazleton wrote a revisionist account, Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen (2004), presenting Jezebel as a sophisticated queen engaged in mortal combat with the fundamentalist prophet Elijah. [79] Iron & Wine included a song "Jezebel" on his 2005 EP Woman King. It contains many references to the ...
Ahab became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, and reigned for twenty-two years, according to 1 Kings 16:29. William F. Albright dated his reign to 869–850 BC, while Edwin R. Thiele offered the dates 874–853 BC. [8] Most recently, Michael Coogan has dated Ahab's reign to 871–852 BC. [9]
Copper engraving of the death of Naboth by Caspar Luiken, 1712. Naboth (/ ˈ n eɪ b ɒ θ,-b oʊ θ /; Hebrew: נבות) was a citizen of Jezreel.According to the Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible, he was executed by Jezebel, the queen of Israel, so that her husband Ahab could possess his vineyard.
She was the daughter of an Heathen, and as she was the wife of Ahab, and therefore a queen, so the "whore of Babylon" calls herself; and as Jezebel was famous for her paintings, so are her pretensions to religion and holiness, and for the gaudiness of her worship; and as she was remarkable for her idolatry, whoredoms, witchcrafts, and cruel ...
Ahab sulked and refused to eat, until his wife Jezebel provided a solution. Pretending to be the king, she wrote to the elders of Naboth’s village under his seal and ordered them to hold a feast ...
1 Kings 21 is the 21st chapter of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the First Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Jezebel, wife of king Ahab of Israel. A seal was found that may bear her name, but the dating and identification with the biblical Jezebel is a subject of debate among scholars. [202] Josiah, king of Judah. Three seals were found that may have belonged to his son Eliashib. [203] Nathan-melech, one of Josiah's officials in 2 Kings 23:11.
Later in the Bible, a Jezebel appears as a false prophet portending the end times and promoting sexual promiscuity. The term has a long history of being used in the U.S. against women, especially Black women. During times of slavery, the idea was used to justify the systemic sexual assault and rape of Black women and girls.