Skip to content

Bible Verses About Jezebel

23 verses · 7 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And Ahab declareth to Jezebel all that Elijah did, and all how he slew all the prophets by the sword,

  2. and Jezebel sendeth a messenger unto Elijah, saying, `Thus doth the gods, and thus do they add, surely about this time to-morrow, I make thy life as the life of one of them.'

  3. And he feareth, and riseth, and goeth for his life, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, that is Judah's, and leaveth his young man there,

  4. And Jezebel his wife cometh in unto him, and speaketh unto him, `What is this? --thy spirit sulky, and thou art not eating bread!'

  5. And he saith unto her, `Because I speak unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and say to him, Give to me thy vineyard for money, or if thou desire, I give to thee a vineyard in its stead; and he saith, I do not give to thee my vineyard.'

  6. And Jezebel his wife saith unto him, `Thou now dost execute rule over Israel! rise, eat bread, and let thy heart be glad, --I do give to thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.'

  7. And she writeth letters in the name of Ahab, and sealeth with his seal, and sendeth the letters unto the elders, and unto the freemen, who are in his city, those dwelling with Naboth,

  8. and she writeth in the letters, saying, `Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people,

  9. and cause two men--sons of worthlessness--to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'

  10. And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them,

  11. they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people,

  12. and two men--sons of worthlessness--come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

  13. and they send unto Jezebel, saying, `Naboth was stoned, and is dead.'

  14. And it cometh to pass, at Jezebel's hearing that Naboth hath been stoned, and is dead, that Jezebel saith unto Ahab, `Rise, possess the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, that he refused to give to thee for money, for Naboth is not alive but dead.'

  15. And it cometh to pass, at Ahab's hearing that Naboth is dead, that Ahab riseth to go down unto the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to possess it.

  16. And Jehu cometh in to Jezreel, and Jezebel hath heard, and putteth her eyes in paint and maketh right her head, and looketh out through the window.

  17. And Jehu hath come into the gate, and she saith, `Was there peace to Zimri--slayer of his lord?'

  18. And he lifteth up his face unto the window, and saith, `Who is with me? --who?' and look out unto him do two or three eunuchs;

  19. And he saith, `Let her go;' and they let her go, and some of her blood is sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses, and he treadeth her down.

  20. And he cometh in, and eateth, and drinketh, and saith, `Look after, I pray you, this cursed one, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.'

  21. And they go to bury her, and have not found of her except the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.

  22. And they turn back, and declare to him, and he saith, `The word of Jehovah it is , that He spake by the hand of this servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel do the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel,

  23. and the carcase of Jezebel hath been as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, that they say not, This is Jezebel.'