King Ahab and Queen Jezebel were horrible, shameless, lawless people. They were greedy, murderous, corrupt idolaters and false accusers leading the people into apostasy.

In the Hebrew Bible, the story of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel is more than a cautionary tale. It is a piercing examination of how power, when unchecked by conscience, can rot the moral foundation ...

This is like King Ahab and his wife, Jezebel, offering to buy out the vineyard of Nabot, who refused to sell on the grounds that his land was a family inheritance going back to the time of Joshua ...

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.

Some religious leaders liken Donald Trump to the ancient Persian King Cyrus and the Ancient Israelite King Jehu. But those who teach biblical studies worry about such comparisons.

Jehu's coup was waged against the line of the Israelite king Ahab and his foreign wife Jezebel. It's worth noting that evangelicals have compared both Trump's presidential opponents — Hillary ...