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==Biblical account==
[[File:Leighton, Frederic - Jezabel and Ahab - c.1863.jpg|thumb|left|''Jezabel and Ahab'' ({{circa|1863}}) by [[Frederic Leighton]]]]
Jezebel is introduced into the biblical narrative as a [[
According to genealogies given in [[Josephus]] and other classical sources, she was the great-aunt of [[Dido]], Queen of [[Carthage]].<ref name="Metzger"/> As the daughter of Ithobaal I, she was also the sister of [[Baal-Eser II]]. Jezebel eventually married King [[Ahab]] of [[Samaria (ancient city)|Samaria]], the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|northern kingdom of Israel]].
[[Near East]]ern scholar Charles R. Krahmalkov proposed that [[Psalm 45]] records the wedding ceremony of Ahab and Jezebel,<ref>Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), ''A Phoenician-Punic Grammar'', page 2 </ref> but other scholars cast doubt on this association.<ref>{{cite book| last1=Rogerson |first1=J W |author-link1=John W. Rogerson |last2=McKay |first2=John William |author-link2=John William McKay |date=1977 |title=Psalms 1-50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwY4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA213 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=213 |isbn=978-0-521-29160-6}}</ref> This marriage was the culmination of the friendly relations existing between Israel and Phoenicia during Omri's reign, and possibly cemented important political designs of Ahab. Jezebel, like the foreign wives of [[Solomon]], required facilities for carrying on her form of worship, so Ahab made a Baalist altar in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.<ref name=je>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8675-jezebel|title=JEZEBEL - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> [[Geoffrey W. Bromiley|Geoffrey Bromiley]] points out that it was
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