Jezebel’s was born into royal cosmopolitan arrogance and prosperity in Tyre, along the coast of Phoenicia at the beginning of the ninth century. Her father was the King Ethbaal of the Zidonians, and he was the high priest of Baal worship. (Baal was the official religion of Phoenicia at the time of the ninth century.) According to historical and archaeological studies, Jezebel lived an extravagant spoiled life full of vibrant textiles, and the education taught by the best Phoenician tutors money could buy. At an early age Jezebel paid homage to multiple Gods and she may have even practiced as a high priestess, but the God she committed these sinful acts for was known as Baal, the storm God who was believed to control the fertility and nature
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He would wed his son Ahab to Jezebel, as an effort to maintain peace, and assist in economic and military growth, “And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord,more than all who were before him.” (1 Kings 16:30) “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” (1 Kings …show more content…
Three years into the drought, the Lord told Elijah to meet with Ahab. Ahab in the Presence of Elijah challenges Elijah on Mount Carmel, with those who eat at his wife’s table. All of the people of Israel and the prophets of Baal stood at the top of Mount Carmel, and the Lord set fire to Elijah’s bull proving of his own divinity. “ Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.” And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.” (1 Kings 18:38-40) After the three year drought, the Lord brought rain to the Israelian people, and the land flourished-except the wicked Jezebel was still in Israel’s
He would wed his son Ahab to Jezebel, as an effort to maintain peace, and assist in economic and military growth, “And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord,more than all who were before him.” (1 Kings 16:30) “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” (1 Kings …show more content…
Three years into the drought, the Lord told Elijah to meet with Ahab. Ahab in the Presence of Elijah challenges Elijah on Mount Carmel, with those who eat at his wife’s table. All of the people of Israel and the prophets of Baal stood at the top of Mount Carmel, and the Lord set fire to Elijah’s bull proving of his own divinity. “ Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.” And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.” (1 Kings 18:38-40) After the three year drought, the Lord brought rain to the Israelian people, and the land flourished-except the wicked Jezebel was still in Israel’s