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<p> '''Jez'ebel.''' ''(chaste).'' Wife of Ahab, king of Israel. [[(B.C.]] 883). She was a Phoenician princess, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians. In her hands, her husband became a mere puppet. &nbsp;1 Kings 21:25. The first effect of her influence was the immediate establishment of the Phoenician worship, on a grand scale in the court of Ahab. At her table were supported no less than 450 prophets of Baal and 400 of Eastward. &nbsp;1 Kings 16:31; &nbsp;1 Kings 16:21; &nbsp;1 Kings 18:19. The prophets of '''Jehovah''' were attacked by her orders, and put to the sword. &nbsp;1 Kings 18:13; &nbsp;2 Kings 9:7. </p> <p> At last the people, at the instigation of Elijah, rose against her ministers and slaughtered them at the foot of Carmel. When she found her husband cast down by his disappointment, at being thwarted by Naboth, &nbsp;1 Kings 21:7, she wrote a warrant in Ahab's name, and sealed it with his seal. To her, and not to Ahab, was sent the announcement that the royal wishes were accomplished, &nbsp;1 Kings 21:14, and on her accordingly fell the prophet's curse, as well as on her husband, &nbsp;1 Kings 21:23, a curse fulfilled so literally by Jehu, whose chariot-horses trampled out her life. The body was left in that open space called, in modern eastern language, "the mounds," where offal is thrown from the city walls. &nbsp;2 Kings 9:30-37. </p>

<p> '''Jezebel''' (''jĕz'e-bĕl'' ), ''chaste. Isabella.'' 1. The daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre, and wife of Ahab, king of Israel, infamous for her idolatry, wickedness and cruel persecution of the prophets of Jehovah. She established the worship of Baal and other idols in the kingdom of Israel. &nbsp;1 Kings 18:3-19. When Elijah caused 450 prophets of Baal to be put to death this wicked woman threatened to slay Elijah, but he escaped. Jezebel planned and executed the murder of Naboth, using the authority and name of the king, and showing her remarkable influence over the wicked Ahab and over the leading men in the kingdom. &nbsp;1 Kings 21:1-13. Indeed, her character throughout exhibits her as a remarkably able and decisive but impious woman. For even after Ahab's death she maintained the ascendency over her son Joram. The doom of this impious queen was predicted by the prophet Elijah, and was in due time visited upon her to the very letter. See &nbsp;1 Kings 21:23, and &nbsp;2 Kings 9:36-37. See Ahab. 2. [[A]] symbolical name of a woman in the church at Thyatira, who corrupted the people; so called in allusion to Ahab's idolatrous wife. &nbsp;Revelation 2:20-24 </p>