to which he had no legal right (I Kings 21). Ahab and Jezebel’s great enemy was the prophet Elijah, who openly opposed them, challenged the priests of Baal and on one celebrated occasion worked ...

In Ahab and Jezebel’s Israel, the prophets were hunted, exiled, or killed. Jezebel’s efforts to silence truth-tellers ensured ...

Possibly at her prompting, King Ahab went as far as to erect ... reportedly with Elijah’s assistance, while Queen Jezebel was thrown to her death and set upon by dogs (II Kings 9:34; 10:9 ...

Jezebel eviscerates Ahab for moping ... dumps his body in Naboth’s field—once more fulfilling Elijah’s prophecy in 1 Kings 21. Jehu was one of the soldiers who, years earlier, overheard ...

Without a doubt, Ahab and his wife Jezebel took wickedness to a ... as soon as those words of prophetic judgment rolled off Elijah’s tongue, he became King Ahab’s public enemy #1.

His worst problems began when he spoke out against King Ahab who, swayed by his wife Jezebel, began to worship foreign gods. Elijah was known for causing a drought and remedying it, working ...

Some were heretics and others heroes, but these royal women all took center stage in some of the most important stories in the Old Testament. Bathsheba, Jezebel, Athaliah, and Esther are all ...

She ruled along with her husband Ahab and refuses to ... Elijah’s negative attention. Elijah utters a prophecy that: “The dogs shall eat Jezebel” (1 Kings 21:23), and indeed, 2 Kings 9: ...

The new warrior king then goes on a killing spree, slaying the families of Ahab and Jezebel and other Baal-worshiping pagans who had despoiled the kingdom. “Jehu came to the capital city with an ...