![]() She was a woman who committed herself to God and followed Him. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a sharp contrast to Jezebel. 2:22-23).Īnd I will kill her children with pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. God not only warned Jezebel the teacher, He also warned her followers to stop sinning and to repent (Rev. God warned this Jezebel that He would punish her if she did not stop teaching evil and repent. They share many of the same characteristics. She was like the Jezebel in the Old Testament. And I gave her time to repent and she does not want to repent of her immorality. She encouraged those who attended the church to engage in sexual sin and to worship other gods.īut I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. Here, Jezebel is described as a prophetess, a false teacher, an immoral woman and idol worshipper. The name Jezebel is used for a woman once again in Revelation 2:18-29. Jezebel was a wicked, evil, adulterous woman who was fighting against God. That is, the dogs ate her flesh, leaving only her skull and the palms of her hands. They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. When some men went to bury her, they found only her skull, feet and palm bones. Her blood was splattered on the wall and horses trampled her to death (2 Kings 9:33). Then Jehu ordered his servants to throw Jezebel down and so they killed Jezebel (2 Kings 9:33). When Jehu arrived and entered the gate of the city, he saw her (2 Kings 9:31-32). She painted her eyes, covered her head and waited for him to enter the city gate. Jezebel heard that he had come to the city. Jezebel’s DeathĢ Kings 9:1-10 tells us that the prophet Elisha anointed Jehu king over Israel and prophesied that Jezebel would be eaten by dogs and never be buried. When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?” 2 Kings 9:22 (NASB)Ĭonsequently, God ordered her death (2 Kings 9:7-8). She was one who abandoned the God of Israel and practiced witchcraft. 2 Kings 9:22 characterizes Jezebel as more than an evil woman. Jezebel was a very wicked woman! She murdered people for personal gain. Now she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people 10 and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” 1 Kings 21:8-10 (NASB)Īnd 1 kings 21:11-14 reveals that Naboth was stoned to death. So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city. 1 Kings 21:8-10 captures the death letter she wrote. In 1 Kings 21:5-25 we are told that Jezebel had Naboth, the Jezreelite, killed by stoning so that her husband could own Naboth’s vineyard. Therefore, Jezebel sought to kill Elijah (1 Kings 19:1-2). Elijah killed the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:40). After Elijah prayed, God sent fire from heaven to consume his sacrifice. Finally, Elijah poured water on his sacrifice three times. The followers of Baal prepared a sacrifice but Baal never sent fire to consume the sacrifice even though the 450 prophets called to Baal all day pleading, “O Baal, answer us.” Then they even cut themselves with swords and lances and still Baal did not answer. How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him but if Baal, follow him. In 1 Kings 18:20-46 Ahab, Elijah and 450 prophets of Baal gather to see, “Who is God?” Elijah puts it simply, She was an evil woman who killed many prophets of God while feeding and caring for the prophets of two gods called Baal and Asherah (1 Kings 18:1-19). 1 Kings 16:30-31 (NASB) Jezebel Killed The Prophets of God And it came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him. The first time the name Jezebel occurs in the Bible is when she is getting married to King Ahab in 1 Kings 16:31,Īnd Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD more than all who were before him. The first one is found in the Old Testament, and the second one is found in the New Testament.
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