The power of the Ahab and Jezebel comparison lies not in personal insult, but in civilizational warning. Biblical history is not just myth, it is memory, carried forward to caution future generations.

Ahab defeated the invading Assyrians. His marriage to Jezebel was a shrewd diplomatic move, since she was a princess of the powerful neighboring kingdom of Phoenicia.

Evidently, Jezebel ignored the warning for the punishment came swift and sure to her. However, the warning made an impression on Ahab. He immediately repented and humbled himself before the Lord.

JEZEBEL, by Megan Barnard. Read by Perdita Weeks. In Megan Barnard’s debut novel, “Jezebel,” the titular wicked queen of biblical lore gets a spirited makeover.

Your correspondent asks, "Has the author any authority for using the Forty-fifth Psalm as the marriage hymn of Ahab and Jezebel?" For an answer I will refer to Hitzig; but if the works of that ...

Jezebel’s deeds of oppression and of breaking God’s law make her far from unique in the Bible. The point is to condemn unjust tyrants — of both sexes. Cancel culture has come for the Bible.

Jezebel plays an active role in attempting to satisfy her husband’s greed, but the story is primarily about Ahab—even the nature of Jezebel’s death is determined by her connection to Ahab. The story ...

Ahab’s second son Jehoram was then ousted from the throne in a bloody coup by a commander named Jehu, reportedly with Elijah’s assistance, while Queen Jezebel was thrown to her death and set ...

Ahab himself did not arrange the murder, but the order went out in his name, and he was unjustly enriched by it. Likewise, God holds Jezebel and Ahab’s heirs accountable for the sins of the ...

Jezebel was a wicked, manipulative and vile woman with a weak, inept and spineless husband. King Ahab is said to have provoked the Lord more so than all the kings before him (1 Kings 16:33).

When Captain Ahab set sail, he was looking for revenge. But the crew of the Pequod were after something less personal and more profitable: sperm whales. And thanks to an 18th-century form of ...

Jezebel is the wife of Ahab, King of Samaria. Ahab wants Naboth’s vineyard because it borders his property. Naboth won’t give it up because it is his ancestral home.