- verses
- 20
- first named
- 1 Kings 16:31
- last named
- Revelation 2:22
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Israel
Description
Who was Jezebel?
Jezebel was the Phoenician princess who became the wife of King Ahab of Israel (1Ki.16.31). She zealously promoted the worship of the Canaanite god Baal and persecuted the prophets of the Lord (1Ki.18.4,13,19). Her conflict with the prophet Elijah is notably recorded in 1Kings 18-19, where Elijah confronts the prophets of Baal and Jezebel threatens Elijah's life.
Jezebel's wickedness is further demonstrated in her plot to have Naboth killed so that Ahab could seize his vineyard (1Ki.21). Her actions led to divine judgment, as pronounced by Elijah (1Ki.21.23).
Years later, during the reign of Ahab's son Joram, Jezebel met her demise as prophesied. Jehu, anointed as king of Israel, had her thrown from a window, and her body was consumed by dogs, fulfilling Elijah's prophecy (2Ki.9.30-37).
In Rev.2.20, the name "Jezebel" is used symbolically to describe a false prophetess who led people astray in the church of Thyatira, drawing a parallel to the idolatry and immorality promoted by Ahab's queen.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.
Child of
- Ethbaalregistry1 Kings 16:31
Mother of
- Ahaziahregistry, no verse
- Athaliahregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Joashregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Joramregistry2 Kings 9:22
Partner of
- Ahabregistry1 Kings 21:71 Kings 21:25
Stands in the same events as
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Jezebel is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
20 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (13), 2 Kings (6) and Revelation (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 20, across 3 books. The name is written 23 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 1 Kings 18Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, while her table fed the prophets of Asherah.
- 1 Kings 19Jezebel sent Elijah a messenger bearing a death threat.
- 1 Kings 21Jezebel used Ahab’s seal to arrange Naboth’s false accusation and death, then sent Ahab to take the vineyard.
- 2 Kings 9Jezebel adorns herself at a window, is thrown down by eunuchs, and is left with only a few parts to bury.
- Revelation 2Jezebel calls herself a prophetess, misleads the servants, and refuses to repent.
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