daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and wife of Ahab,
king of Israel, 1 Kings xvi, 31. This princess introduced into the
kingdom of Samaria the public worship of Baal, Astarte, and other
Phenician deities, which the Lord had expressly forbidden; and with this
impious worship, a general prevalence of those abominations which had
formerly incensed God against the Canaanites, to their utter
extirpation. Jezebel was so zealous, that she fed at her own table four
hundred prophets belonging to the goddess Astarte; and her husband Ahab,
in like manner, kept four hundred of Baal’s prophets, as ministers of
his false gods. The name of Jezebel is used proverbially, Rev. ii, 20.
See JEHU.
king of Israel, 1 Kings xvi, 31. This princess introduced into the
kingdom of Samaria the public worship of Baal, Astarte, and other
Phenician deities, which the Lord had expressly forbidden; and with this
impious worship, a general prevalence of those abominations which had
formerly incensed God against the Canaanites, to their utter
extirpation. Jezebel was so zealous, that she fed at her own table four
hundred prophets belonging to the goddess Astarte; and her husband Ahab,
in like manner, kept four hundred of Baal’s prophets, as ministers of
his false gods. The name of Jezebel is used proverbially, Rev. ii, 20.
See JEHU.