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| image = John Liston Byam Shaw 003.jpg
| caption = 19th-century painting of Jezebel by [[John Liston Byam Shaw]]
| death_date = {{circa}} 852 BCE
| death_place = [[Tel Jezreel]]
| spouse = King [[Ahab]]
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'''Jezebel''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɛ|z|ə|b|əl|,_|-|b|ɛ|l}};<ref name=ipa_en>{{cite book|title=Oxford English Dictionary|edition=Second|year=1989}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20190505122805/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/Jezebel "Jezebel"] (US) and {{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Jezebel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505000000/http://www.lexico.com/definition/Jezebel |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-05-05 |title=Jezebel |dictionary=[[Lexico|Oxford Dictionaries]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/jezebel |title= Jezebel |work=[[Collins English Dictionary]] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite Merriam-Webster |Jezebel |access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref> {{Hebrew Name|אִיזֶבֶל|ʾĪzével|ʾĪzeḇel}}) was the daughter of [[Ithobaal I]] of [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] and the wife of [[Ahab]], [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|King of Israel]], according to the [[Books of Kings|Book of Kings]] of the [[Hebrew Bible]] ([[1 Kings 16]], {{bibleverse|1 Kings|16:31}}).<ref>Elizabeth Knowles, [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Jezebel.html "Jezebel"], ''The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'', OUP 2006</ref>
According to the biblical narrative, Jezebel replaced [[Yahwism]] with [[Baal]] and [[Asherah]] worship and was responsible for [[Naboth]]’s death. This caused irreversible damage to the reputation of the [[Omrides|Omride dynasty]], who were already
Later, in the [[Book of Revelation]], the name Jezebel is contemptuously attributed to a prophetic woman of [[Thyatira]], whom the author, through the voice of the risen Christ, accuses of leading her followers into fornication (idolatry). For refusing to repent, she is threatened with sexual domination, humiliation, and the death of her children.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dunning |first=Benjamin H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZOzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA513 |title=The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality |date=2019-10-10 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-021340-4 |pages=513 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Streete |first=Gail Corrington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MoXi1cWbSPMC |title=The Strange Woman: Power and Sex in the Bible |date=1997-01-01 |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |isbn=978-0-664-25622-7 |pages=154–55 |language=en}}</ref>
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