Bible Dictionary: Revenge: Jezebel

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1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not your life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
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Royal Murderers
... to a king, than be one of his stoners, who killed their innocent neighbour to pleasure
Jezebel! ... 'Surely the bitter wormwood of divine revenge grew abundantly ...
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How Jehu was Anointed King, and Slew Both Joram and Ahaziah; as ...
... him to be king, in order to his destroying the house of Ahab, and that he might
revenge the blood of the prophets that were unjustly slain by Jezebel, that so ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 how jehu was.htm

The Sixth Commandment
... Mordecai because he would not bow to him, and presently sought revenge, by getting ...
Thus, though Jezebel did not lay her own hands upon Naboth, yet because she ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 6 the sixth commandment.htm

The Martyrdom of John
... carelessness of human life, she is the sister of Jezebel, and curiously ... in her character,
her hot animal passions, her cool inflexible revenge, her cynical ...
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Herod --A Startled Conscience
... singularly like the other triad in the Old Testament, of Ahab, Jezebel, and Elijah ...
for the malignant gloating of the woman over her gratified revenge, the event ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/heroda startled conscience.htm

Chrysostom as Patriarch of Constantinople. AD 398-404.
... or rather his prime minister, the eunuch Eutropius, and nursed his revenge for a
more ... language in the pulpit, and spoke on Elijah's relation to Jezebel in such ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/chapter vii chrysostom as patriarch of.htm

Chrysostom and Theophilus. His First Deposition and Banishment.
... whom he had reluctantly consecrated, set every instrument in motion to take revenge. ...
alone and bathed alone, that he had compared the empress to Jezebel. ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/chapter viii chrysostom and theophilus his.htm

The Martyrdom of John
... Herodias, the Jezebel to this Ahab, was his brother's wife, and niece to both her ...
kept him safe' (not ob- but pre-served him); that is, from Herodias' revenge. ...
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Knox and Queen Mary (Continued), 1564-1567
... against God "in all the actions of her life." Ahab and Jezebel were again ... make them,
not merciful Calvinists, the objects of the fear and revenge of Catholic ...
/.../lang/john knox and the reformation/chapter xvii knox and queen.htm

The Second Part.
... and glebes, unlawfull, because they are loth to forgo them: If Jezebel proclaime
a ... with malicious Doegs, to make it a stalking horse for revenge against the ...
/.../ward/a coal from the altar to kindle the holy fire of zeale/the second part.htm

Subtopics

Revenge by James and John

Revenge by Jezebel

Revenge by Joab

Revenge by Samson

Revenge by Simeon and Levi

Revenge by the Chief Priests