![]() This ancient queen has been denounced as a murderer, prostitute and enemy of God, and her name has been adopted for lingerie lines and World War II missiles alike. ![]() Image: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, UK/Bridgeman Art Library.įor more than two thousand years, Jezebel has been saddled with a reputation as the bad girl of the Bible, the wickedest of women. ![]() As Jehu’s chariot races toward the palace to kill Jezebel, she “painted her eyes with kohl and dressed her hair, and she looked out of the window” (2 Kings 9:30). Jezebel’s reputation as the most dangerous seductress in the Bible stems from her final appearance: her husband King Ahab is dead her son has been murdered by Jehu. ![]() Israel’s most accursed queen carefully fixes a pink rose in her red locks in John Byam Liston Shaw’s “Jezebel” from 1896. ![]()
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