The wicked Queen of King Ahab!
The bad girl of the Bible!
Our class discussed female figures in the Bible in a religious study last Sunday. Pamela presented:
Jezebel:
As a princess, Jezebel is the daughter of Ethbaal of Tyre, King of the Phoenicians, a group of Semites whose ancestors were Canaanites.
After the reign of Solomon, the Israelites settled into the promised land, established a monarchy, and separated into northern & southern kingdoms. But God's chosen people continually went astray.
Their worst sin is the worship of alien deities.
Jezebel enters the scene in the ninth century B.C.E. They bring her to the Northern Kingdom to wed the newly crowned king Ahab, son of Omri. (1Kings 16:31.)
As noted in brief passages throughout the Book of Kings, she became the Phoenician wife of King Ahab of Israel.
Jezebel's marriage to Ahab was a political alliance. The union provided both peoples with military protection from powerful enemies & valuable trade routes.
As a result, Israel gained access to Phoenician ports, and Phoenicians gained access through the King's Highway, the inland route connecting the Gulf…
