1 Kings 21:23

21:23 The Lord says this about Jezebel, ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall ¹  of Jezreel.’

1 Kings 21:14-15

21:14 Then they reported to Jezebel, “Naboth has been stoned to death.” ² 

21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she ³  said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”

1 Kings 18:4

18:4 When Jezebel was killing ⁴  the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

1 Kings 19:1

Elijah Runs for His Life

19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 21:5

21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”

1 Kings 21:11

21:11 The men of the ⁵  city, the leaders ⁶  and the nobles who lived there, ⁷  followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them. ⁸ 

1 Kings 21:25

21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed ⁹  to doing evil in the sight of ¹⁰  the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 16:31

16:31 As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal. ¹² 

1 Kings 18:13

18:13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did ¹³  when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

1 Kings 18:19

18:19 Now send out messengers ¹⁴  and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, ¹⁶  “May the gods judge me severely ¹⁷  if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 21:7

21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! ¹⁹  Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. ²⁰  I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”

[21:23]  ¹ tc A few Hebrew mss and some ancient versions agree with 2 Kgs 9:10, 36, which reads, “the plot [of ground] at Jezreel.” The Hebrew words translated “outer wall” (חֵל, khel, defectively written here!) and “plot [of ground]” (חֵלֶק, kheleq) are spelled similarly.

[21:14]  ² tn Heb “Naboth was stoned and he died.” So also in v. 15.

[21:15]  ³ tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[18:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “cutting off.”

[21:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “his.”

[21:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “elders.”

[21:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the nobles who were living in his city.”

[21:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “did as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the scrolls which she sent to them.”

[21:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “who sold himself.”

[21:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”

[16:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.”

[18:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”

[18:19]  ⁹ tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.

[18:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

[19:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “saying.”

[19:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[19:2]  ¹² tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

[21:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”

[21:7]  ¹² tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”