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Jezebel
(9th century BCE)
The Most Maligned Woman in the Bible
Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
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Jezebel is here quite done-up, with loads of jewelry, makeup, and henna tattoos on her hands (as she likely would have done). She’s wearing a lot of purple, which would have come from a dye her homeland was known for producing. At her side is a peacock, an animal generally associated with haughtiness and splendor. Seemed to fit.
She is rolling her eyes at Elisha, who has come with three hungry dogs to point fingers at her. In the background, a crowd of people have gathered to watch — and two happy bears are juggling children, a reference to Elisha’s mystical bear powers.
Farther back, on the hillside overlooking a town, are the vineyards of Naboth. In the very far background, erupting from the hills is a column of fire, a callback to the Elijah fire-setting showdown.
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So I just finished reading this entry and thought of something. The original meaning of “slut” was “someone who doesn’t bathe/is really dirty.” (Same with “whore.”) In Judaism bathing is super important. There’s even rules for it as well as washing hands. Some people think the origin of anti-Semitism is the fact the Jews were better at surviving things like the bubonic plague because of the fact they bathed.
So maybe when they call Jezebel a slut they don’t mean she slept with a lot of men but rather that she had nasty BO, greasy hair, and fleas.
I don’t think so. The connotation is very much that she was a temptress and led men astray. – even to modern day. Although the cleanliness aspect is an interesting angle to view things from…!
She SEDUCED Ahab with her words and led him astray from God
And this what happens when you mess with God/Jesus.
Other people who wronged God/Jesus:
– Ramesses II
– Rehoboam
– Ahab
– Jeroboam
– Herod Agrippa
– Herod the Great
– Judas
– Goliath
– Satan
– Belshazzar
– Nebuchadnezzar II
– Ananias and Sapphira
– Delilah
– Herodias
– Lot’s Wife
– King Saul
– Pilate
– Caiaphas
– Haman
…okay, this list is too long. Lesson of the day: Don’t enraged God. PERIOD!
agreed he may be good but we all have anger other than jesus why was he so calm
He should be capitalized when you talk about God or Jesus, out of respect.