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Bookmark or Share- The Life of Jezebel - Bible StudyThe evil of Ahab and Jezebel ultimately brings God's wrath upon them. The king, as was prophesied, is killed in battle in 853 B.C. (1Kings 21:19). The queen is allowed to live beyond her husband's death until 841 when, defiant and self-righteous to the end, she loses her life when she is tossed out of her window by some servants and dies.
- Kings of Israel and Judah Timeline - Bible StudyWith the exception of Queen Athaliah (daughter of Israel's King Ahab and Jezebel), who seized power and ruled for six years, the Kingdom of Judah always had a descendant of David sitting on the throne. In 586 B.C. King Nebuchadnezzar lays siege to Jerusalem a third time. He destroys the city and burns its temple.
- Who Is King Ahab? - Bible StudyWhat Ahab wanted, he got, especially with the help of his evil wife Queen Jezebel. One day he offered his neighbor, Naboth, a choice of either a better vineyard somewhere else or money for the land he owned. Naboth refused. When the king could not buy Naboth's land from him he went home and pouted like a little child!
- Kingdom of Israel's Royal Dynasties - Bible StudyJehu then kills Judah's King Ahaziah who was married to Ahab and Jezebel's daughter named Athaliah. Jehu then has Jezebel killed followed by murdering Ahab's seventy sons, all the other relatives of Ahab (thus destroying the Omri - Ahab dynasty), all of the relatives of Judah's Ahaziah, and lastly the pagan priests of Baal (2Kings 9 - 10).
- Kingdom of Judah's Rulers - Bible StudyAs if this were not enough, Ahab's son Joram is also called Jehoram in 2Kings 3:1! Joash (2Kings 11:2), the son of Ahaziah and Judah's eighth ruler from 835 to 796 B.C., is sometimes called Jehoash (verse 21).
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