Historical imagination rooted in solid research is what makes “Jezebel” breathe. This history, subtitled “The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen,” examines the story of the ...

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 ...

The Bible’s Jezebel came to an ugly end. Thrown from a balcony, trampled by horses, and devoured by dogs, the middle-aged queen has had few good days since. For almost 3,000 years, her name has ...

Jezebel plots and executes the murder of a man in order to take his vineyard, supports pagan worship contrary to God’s law, and routinely persecutes the prophet Elijah.

Victorious but far from magnanimous, Elijah then slaughters the pagan prophets—revenge for Jezebel's murder of Yahweh's followers—and the Hebrew God rewards him by ending Israel's drought.

Elijah was flying about as high as a man could be. All by himself, he faced down King Ahab and Queen Jezebel and their 450 false prophets of Baal.

Frightened, Elijah fled and then plotted revenge. When, many years later, Elijah and his followers triumphed, Jezebel did not beg for mercy. Instead, she met her end defiantly, ...

Elijah and other true prophets were in hiding to avoid being killed by King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. In the midst of this turmoil, God called Elijah to risk his life and invite the king and false ...

St. Elijah is honored on July 20; he is the patron of the Carmelite Order and Vehicle Blessings. ... Jezebel was infuriated and threatened Elijah’s life, forcing him into hiding.

The prophet Elijah (1 Kings 17ff) was a one-man gang. If you believe the history, he preferred to work alone, could make it rain on command and had friends in such high places that the birds rang ...

It accords with that Elijah-spirit of orthodox fanaticism which, as Christ Himself had to teach to the sons of thunder, is not His spirit, but utterly alien from it." (Farrar's "First Book of ...