2006-10-25 03:52:14 · 7 answers · asked by tzik 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
She was an extremely wicked woman.
2006-10-25 08:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She killed the Lord's prophets, worshipped Baal and ate with Baal's prophets, she also devised a way to get Naboth killed so that the king could take his vineyards, and finally she urged the king on to do everything which was evil in the sight of God.
She was just wicked, man. So God told Elijah that she would be devoured by dogs. And so she was; she fell out of a window and dogs ate her.
2006-10-25 04:05:47 · answer #2 · answered by plush 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prophet Aliyahoo (no relation to the portal) blamed her for ordering the murder of Navot, the owner of a property the queen coveted. And so, when a fundemantalistic rebellion commenced, the queen, which also was of foreign decent, was killed.
2006-10-25 04:05:13 · answer #3 · answered by queen j 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel is a queen of ancient Israel, whose story is told in 1 Kings. The author introduces her as a Phoenician princess, the daughter of King Ithobaal I of Tyre, who marries King Ahab. She turns Ahab away from the god Jehovah, and towards the worship of her god, Baal. The two then allow temples of Baal to open in Israel. Jezebel uses her control over Ahab to subject Israel to tyranny. After she slaughters the prophets of the Lord, the prophet Elijah confronts her to charge her with abominations. She responds by threatening to kill him as well. After Ahab's death, Jezebel continues to rule through her son Ahaziah. When Ahaziah is killed in battle, she exercises control through her other son, Joram. Joram is killed by Jehu, who confronts Jezebel in Jezreel and urges her servants to kill her by defenestration (i.e. pushing her from a high window.) They comply, and her corpse is left in the street to be eaten by dogs, in fulfillment of Elijah's prophecy.
In the New Testament
In the New Testament, Jezebel is a prophetess in the city of Thyatira. She is accused in Revelation 2:20 of inducing members of the church there to commit acts of sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Some authorities suggest that the author here uses the name Jezebel as a nickname, knowing that readers in Thyatira would know to whom it was being referred, and they would also know of the deeds of the previous Jezebel recorded in 1 Kings.
Carthage
Jezebel is said to be the great aunt of Queen Dido, founder of Carthage, who is best known for her depiction in Virgil's The Aeneid.
2006-10-25 04:08:08 · answer #4 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jezebel was the wife of Ahab who she led to abandon his God and bow to Baal.
She is the metaphorical female aspect of the Devil himself as the Prince of Tyre is synonymous with Satan... and the story of his attempt to rise up above the throne of God and then, his fall. She embodies the female aspect of what it is to temp, divide and seperate causing war and strife and hatred...
She is the Muse of war and Baal's scapegoat, in female human form.
2006-10-25 04:07:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny enough. The bible made her out to be a harlot. when in reality her only crime was being a foreign princess who brought her native religion to Jerusalem. For this they threw her out of the tower and let dogs eat her body.
2015-08-15 08:24:19 · answer #6 · answered by Stormy Seaside 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The usual reason: she knew too much.
2006-10-25 03:56:39 · answer #7 · answered by martino 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋