Jezebel wasn’t just a whore – she was a butchering murderous
Women. Being a worshipper of Baal (a devil) she determined to convert her
nation-by-marriage (Israel – she was a Phoenician princess married to a Jewish
king) to the same religion. In order to do so she butchered as many Jewish
prophets as she could round up; and she rounded up quite a few!
This is not entirely uncommon in the old testament as the Jews
frequently killed their prophets; but Jezebel had to go one worse. Not content
to murder the prophets to stop them spreading their “wickedness” she sacrificed
babies to her god of stone to appease him. Elijah – her chief protagonist at
least has a chance for vengeance and eventually slaughtered the 450 prophets of
Baal. Jezebel came to a ruinous end when she was cast from a window by three
Eunuchs whereupon she was trampled to death by horses and eventually eaten by
dogs, leaving behind her only her feet, skull, and hands.
And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is
this? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him. And he said to them: Throw
her down headlong: and they threw her down, and the wall was sprinkled with her
blood, and the hoofs of the horses trod upon her. And when he was come in, to
eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her:
because she is a king’s daughter. And when they went to bury her, they found
nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands.
See the Bible References —II Kings 9:30-37
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