JEZEBEL of Israel (891 - 840 B.C.E)

Through the centuries, Jezebel has become associated with false prophets. Her dressing in finery and putting on makeup led to the association of the use of cosmetics with "painted women" or prostitutes. By the early 20th century, the term "Jezebel" was also associated with fallen or abandoned women. In Christian lore, a comparison to Jezebel suggested that a person was a pagan masquerading as a servant of God. By manipulation and/or seduction, she misled the saints of God into sins of idolatry and sexual immorality. According to the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and fabricated evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death. For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, Jezebel met a gruesome death - thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs.

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