"Ahab made an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. Jezebel went so far as to require that her religion should be the national religion of Israel. She organized and maintained guilds of prophets, 450 of Baal, and 400 of Asherah. She also destroyed such prophets of Israel as she could reach. Obadiah, the faithful overseer of Ahab's house, rescued one hundred of these, hid them, and secretly fed them in a cave. Geoffrey Bromiley points out that it was Phoenician practice to install a royal woman as a priestess of Astarte. As"
"tributary. Ahab was allied by marriage with Jehoshaphat, who was king of Judah. Only with Aram Damascus is he believed to have had strained relations. Ahab married Jezebel, the daughter of the King of Tyre. 1 Kings 16–22 tells the story of Ahab and Jezebel, and indicates that Jezebel was a dominant influence on Ahab and strove to spread idol worship of Baal in Israel. Ahab lived in Samaria, the royal capital established by Omri, and built a temple and altar to Baal there. He was succeeded by Ahaziah and Jehoram, who reigned over Israel until Jehu's revolt of 842"
"Jezebel, a priestess of Baal and the daughter of the king of Sidon in Phoenicia. These solutions brought security and economic prosperity to Israel for a time, but did not bring peace with the Israelite prophets, who were interested in a strict deuteronomic interpretation of the religious law. Under Ahab's kingship, these tensions were exacerbated. Ahab built a temple for Baal, and his wife Jezebel brought a large entourage of priests and prophets of Baal and Asherah into the country. It is in this context that Elijah is introduced in as Elijah ""the Tishbite"". He warns Ahab that there will"
"There appears to be no evidence that she was the daughter of Ahab’s chief wife, Jezebel. Athaliah might have been the daughter of another of Ahab's wives, such as Ben-hadad apparently indicated Ahab had. The argument is made that the Ahab/Jezebel marriage was an affair of state that would only have occurred after Omri, Ahab's father, was firmly in control of his kingdom, and Ithobaal, Jezebel's father, was firmly in control of Tyre and Sidon. Omri and Ithobaal were both usurpers; neither was the member of a royal family before they took the throne, and so it is not reasonable"
"Gebre Mesqel Lalibela Lalibela (), regnal name Gebre Meskel (; 1162 – 1221) was Emperor of Ethiopia of the Zagwe dynasty, reigning from 1181 to 1221. According to Taddesse Tamrat, he was the son of Jan Seyum and brother of Kedus Harbe. Perhaps the most well-known of the Zagwe monarchs, the namesake monolithic churches of Lalibela are attributed to his reign, although recent scholarship has suggested origins as early as the late Aksumite period, with the complex reaching its present form during his time. He is venerated as a saint by the Orthodox Tewahedo churches. King Lalibela was born at"
"because of his marriage to Jezebel, because of his worship of Baal, disobedience to prophetic warnings and words, and also because of the murder of Naboth. The murder of Naboth (see Jezebel), an act of royal encroachment, stirred up popular resentment just as the new cult aroused the opposition of the Israelite prophets, including Elijah and Micaiah. Indeed, he is referred to, for this and other things, as being ""more evil than all the kings before him"" (1 Kings 16:30). The followers of Yahweh found their champion in Elijah. His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel and his emphatic"
"and the other Israelite cities was extensive. In the 1 Kings passage, Ithobaal is labeled king of the Sidonians. At this time Tyre and Sidon were consolidated into one kingdom. Menander’s comment that Ithobaal had been a priest of Astarte before becoming king explains why his daughter Jezebel was so zealous in the promotion of the Phoenician gods, thus leading to the conflicts between Elijah and Jezebel’s forces described in 1 Kings 18 and 19. Menander’s further statement that her father was a murderer sheds some light on her choice of a way to solve the “Naboth” problem in 1"
"Jehoram of Israel Jehoram ( ""Yəhōrām""; also Joram) was a king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. (, ) He was the son of Ahab and Jezebel, and brother to King Ahaziah. According to 2 Kings, , in the fifth year of Joram of Israel, (another) Jehoram became king of Judah, when his father Jehoshaphat was (still) king of Judah, indicating a co-regency. The author of Kings speaks of both Jehoram (Joram) of Israel and Jehoram of Judah in the same passage. Joram began to reign in Israel in the 18th year of Jehoshaphat of Judah, and ruled 12 years"
"Ahaziah of Israel Ahaziah ( ""’Ăḥazyāh"", ""Yah has grasped""; also , ""Ochozias"" in the Septuagint and the Douai-Rheims translation) was king of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the son of Ahab and Jezebel. Like his father, he reigned from Samaria. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 850-849 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 853-852 BC. The author of the ""Books of Kings"" criticized him for following the ways of his dad Ahab and his mother Jezebel, and for making Israel sin ""in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat"". Biblical commentator Albert Barnes notes"
"Jezebel, his father and mother, in the kingdom of Israel) the ships were wrecked and never set sail. His messengers, sent to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of prophecy in Ekron regarding his recovery from the effects of a fall from the roof-gallery of his palace, were met on the way by Elijah, who sent them back to tell the king that, for his deeds and for seeking a god that was not the God of Israel, he would never rise from his bed (; ). According to the Second Book of Kings, he did not recover from his injuries and"
"Naboth Naboth () ""the Jezreelite"" is the central figure of a passage from the first Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. Queen Jezebel arranged to have him judicially murdered because her husband, King Ahab coveted Naboth's land. This action set in motion the ultimate destruction of the Omride dynasty. According to I Kings 21:1-16, Naboth owned a plot of land close to the palace of King Ahab, who wished to acquire it for a vegetable or herb garden. Naboth, however, had inherited his land from his father, and he refused to sell it to the king. Since it was"
"to Naboth's life. Naboth Naboth () ""the Jezreelite"" is the central figure of a passage from the first Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. Queen Jezebel arranged to have him judicially murdered because her husband, King Ahab coveted Naboth's land. This action set in motion the ultimate destruction of the Omride dynasty. According to I Kings 21:1-16, Naboth owned a plot of land close to the palace of King Ahab, who wished to acquire it for a vegetable or herb garden. Naboth, however, had inherited his land from his father, and he refused to sell it to the king."
"of Kings. Many scholars believe that this describes Jezebel's attempt to introduce the worship of the Baʿal of Tyre, Melqart, to the Israelite capital Samaria in the 9th century . Against this, Day argues that Jezebel's Baʿal was more probably Baʿal Shamem, the Lord of the Heavens, a title most often applied to Hadad, who is also often titled just Ba‘al. 1 Kings 18 records an account of a contest between the prophet Elijah and Jezebel's priests. Both sides offered a sacrifice to their respective gods: Ba'al failed to light his followers' sacrifice while Yahweh's heavenly fire burnt Elijah's altar"
"prophecy of Elijah. But the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) adds that pigs also licked his blood, symbolically making him unclean to the Israelites, who abstained from pork. Ahab was succeeded by his sons, Ahaziah and Jehoram. Jezebel's death, however, was more dramatic than Ahab's. As recorded in 2 Kings 9:30-34, Jezebel was confronted by Jehu who had her servants throw her out the window, causing her death. 1 Kings 16:29 through 22:40 contains the story of Ahab's reign. This reign is one which faces opposition from several prophets of Yahweh throughout as well as various consequences"
"by Samuel, adding that Saul will perish with his whole army in battle the next day. Saul is terrified. The next day, his army is defeated as prophesied, and Saul commits suicide. Although Saul is depicted as an enemy to witches and diviners, the Witch of Endor comforts Saul when she sees his distress and insists on feeding him before he leaves. Jezebel is described in the Book of Kings (1 Kings 16:31) as a queen who was the daughter of Ithobaal I of Sidon and the wife of Ahab, King of Israel. According to the Books of Kings, Jezebel"
"Press, 2016. Athaliah Athaliah (; ; ; ) was queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and later queen regnant c. 841–835 BCE. Athaliah is usually considered the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel. Athaliah was married to Jehoram of Judah to seal a treaty between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and to secure his position Jehoram killed his six brothers. Jehoram became king of Judah in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel's reign. () Jehoram of Israel was Athaliah's brother (or possibly nephew). Jehoram of Judah"
"but rather the son of Pedaiah. For a further explanation of this contradiction please see the section on Zerubbabel and his family. The Hebrew Bible lists Shealtiel as the second son of King Jeconiah (). The Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II exiled to Babylon Joconiah and Jeconiah's uncle King Zedekiah the last king of Judah and killed Zedekiah there. Potentially, Shealtiel became the legal heir to the throne, if the Davidic monarchy were restored. The Hebrew Bible has conflicting texts regarding whether Zerubbabel is the son of Shealtiel or of Pedaiah. Several texts (that are thought to be more-or-less contemporaneous) explicitly"
"died. Having no son, Ahaziah was succeeded as king of Israel by Joram, his younger brother. These are ancestors of Ahaziah according to the Bible. Ahaziah of Israel Ahaziah ( ""’Ăḥazyāh"", ""Yah has grasped""; also , ""Ochozias"" in the Septuagint and the Douai-Rheims translation) was king of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the son of Ahab and Jezebel. Like his father, he reigned from Samaria. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 850-849 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 853-852 BC. The author of the ""Books of Kings"" criticized him for following the ways of his"
"such she would have a more active role in temple and palace relations than was customary in the Hebrew monarchy. During Jezebel's reign official royal support for Yahwism had weakened. According to Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh () and used royal provisions to support the prophets of Baal during the famine in Samaria (). Elijah notes that the Israelite community were divided over whether to worship Baal or Yahweh due to the increasing influence of Baal worship. He decided to put an end to this controversy by challenging the prophets of Baal on Carmel to show the power of"
"Stele claimed to have slain both Ahaziah and Jehoram. Hazael is the most likely to have written it. Jehoram of Israel Jehoram ( ""Yəhōrām""; also Joram) was a king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. (, ) He was the son of Ahab and Jezebel, and brother to King Ahaziah. According to 2 Kings, , in the fifth year of Joram of Israel, (another) Jehoram became king of Judah, when his father Jehoshaphat was (still) king of Judah, indicating a co-regency. The author of Kings speaks of both Jehoram (Joram) of Israel and Jehoram of Judah in the same passage."
"(generally unconnected with the contemporary surname), Saltijeral, von Saltiel and Xaltiel. Both genealogies of Jesus regard Shealtiel (and not Pedaiah) as the father of Zerubbabel. Matthew lists Shealtiel as the son of Jeconiah, while Luke lists a man named Shealtiel who is the son of an otherwise unknown man named Neri. ( and ) King Josiah and Zebidah are the parents of King Jehoiakim. King Jehoiakim and Nehustra are the parents of Shealtiel. Shealtiel's wife is Hachalya. Neri and Tamar are the parents of Hachalya. Neri is Shealtiel's father-in-law. [Geni.com] Shealtiel Shealtiel (, ""Shə’altî’ēl"") or Greek-derived variant Salathiel (Greek: Σαλαθιηλ,"
"Athaliah Athaliah (; ; ; ) was queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and later queen regnant c. 841–835 BCE. Athaliah is usually considered the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel. Athaliah was married to Jehoram of Judah to seal a treaty between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and to secure his position Jehoram killed his six brothers. Jehoram became king of Judah in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel's reign. () Jehoram of Israel was Athaliah's brother (or possibly nephew). Jehoram of Judah reigned for"
"Shebuel Shebuel () was a descendant of Gershom, the son of Moses and Zipporah. He, along with his kinsman Rehabiah a descendant of Eliezer, were described as chiefs and included in the Tribe of Levi. Shebuel is also described as ""ruler of the treasures"". His name means ""captive of God"" or ""returned of God"". His patrilineal lineage can be traced back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob since Levi is both his great-great grandfather (through Jochebed) and great-great-great grandfather (through Amram). He is also descended from Jethro and Jethro's ancestor Midian, son of Abraham and his second wife Keturah, through his"
"Jethro (biblical figure) In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (; , Standard ""Yitro"" Tiberian ""Yiṯerô""; ""His Excellence/Posterity""; Arabic ""Shu-ayb"") or Reuel was Moses' father-in-law, a Kenite shepherd and priest of Midian. In Exodus, Moses' father-in-law is initially referred to as ""Reuel"" (Exodus 2:18) but then as ""Jethro"" (Exodus 3:1). He was the father of Hobab in the Book of Numbers 10:29. He is also revered as the spiritual founder and chief prophet in his own right in the Druze religion, and considered an ancestor of all Druze. Jethro is called a priest of Midian and became father-in-law of Moses after he"
"the film, the scandalous scarlet red dress at the Olympus Ball, the virginal white dress she wears when she attempts to woo back Henry Fonda, and finally the cape she dons at the end of the film when she must go to help care for Fonda. In Basinger's opinion, this was the performance at the height of Davis's career and ""Jezebel"" is the quintessential American woman's film. Jezebel (film) Jezebel is a 1938 American romantic drama film released by Warner Bros. and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald"
"Jael Jael or Yael (Hebrew Ya'el, יָעֵל, meaning Ibex) is a woman mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of King Jabin. Jael was the wife of Heber the Kenite. The Kenites were a nomadic tribe, some of whom lived in close proximity to the Israelites. The Bible records a number of cases of intermarriage; the father-in-law of Moses was apparently a Kenite, but it is not clear if this was Jethro. The Kenites may have been a part of the Midianite group. Heber the"
"Zimri set fire to the palace, killing himself. Omri became king only after four years of war with Tibni, another claimant to the throne of Israel. The name Zimri became a byword for a traitor who murdered and made out with his wife his master. When Jehu led a bloody military revolt to seize the throne of Israel, killed both Jehoram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah, and entered the citadel of Jezreel to execute Queen Jezebel, she greeted him with the words: ""Is it peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?"" (2 Kings 9:31). In John Dryden's"
"Zipporah Zipporah or Tzipora (; , ""Tsippōrāh"", ""bird"") is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Reuel/Jethro, the priest or prince of Midian and the spiritual founder and ancestor of the Druze. In the Book of Chronicles, two of her descendants are mentioned: Shebuel, son of Gershom, and Rehabiah, son of Eliezer. In the Hebrew Bible Zipporah was one of the seven daughters of Jethro, a Kenite shepherd who was a priest of Midian. In Jethro is also referred to as Reuel and referred to as Hobab in the Book of Judges"
"of Jehoiakim who was also cursed in Jeremiah 36:30. Jeconiah was told that none of his descendants could ever sit on the throne of David.(Jeremiah 22:30) Jews thus argue the Messiah must descend from King Solomon but not from King Jeconiah. Jews point out that Jeconiah's grandson, Zerubbabel, held power granted by God, though he was never king. Jews argue that on top of Nathan not being king, Luke 3:27 includes Shealtiel and Zerubbabel, both of whom are descendants of the cursed Jeconiah in Matthew 1:12. This is part of the reason Jews give for rejecting Jesus as the promised"
"chosen band, Jehu proceeded to Jezreel. King Jehoram tried to flee, but Jehu fired an arrow which pierced his heart. King Ahaziah managed to escape, but was mortally wounded, and died shortly after in Megiddo. The author of ""Kings"" tells that Jehu entered the city without resistance. He saw Jehoram's mother, Jezebel, watching him with contempt from a palace window. Jehu commanded the palace eunuchs to throw her from the window. Jezebel was killed, and Jehu drove his chariot over her body. Her servants later came to bury her, only to find that dogs had eaten all but her hands,"
"Lemuel (biblical king) Lemuel ( ""Ləmû’ēl"", ""to him, El"") is the name of a Biblical king mentioned in Proverbs 31:1 and 4, but whose identity remains uncertain. Speculation exists and proposes that Lemuel was Hezekiah, Solomon, a king of Massa, or fictitious. The opening verse of Proverbs 31 reads: ""The words of the great king Lemuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him."" The name occurs again in verse 4: ""Give not to kings, O Lemuel, give not wine to kings ..."" The discourse, which is an exhortation to chastity, justice, mercy and temperance, appears to end with verse 9,"
"of Elnathan of Jerusalem. He had seven children: Shealtiel, Malkiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah. (). Jeconiah is also mentioned in the first book of Chronicles as the father of Pedaiah, who in turn is the father of Zerubbabel. A list of his descendants is given in . In listing the genealogy of Jesus Christ, records Jeconiah as an ancestor of Joseph, the husband of Mary. The Babylonian Chronicles establish that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem the first time on 2 Adar (16 March) 597 BC. Before Wiseman's publication of the Babylonian Chronicles in 1956, Thiele had determined from biblical texts"
"the true pronunciation. Some suppose he was father to Hobab, who was also called Jethro, a likely possibility. It became, however, generally accepted that he had seven names: ""Reuel"", ""Jether"", ""Jethro"", ""Hobab"", ""Heber"", ""Keni"" (comp. Judges i. 16, iv. 11), and ""Putiel""; Eleazar's father-in-law (Ex. vi. 25) being identified with Jethro by interpreting his name either as ""he who abandoned idolatry"" or as ""who fattened calves for the sake of sacrifices to the idol"". Jethro, Moses' non-Hebrew father-in-law, is a central figure, particularly in the rites and pilgrimages, of the Druze religion. He is viewed as a Prophet in Druze"