Conclusion of Jezebel - A Wicked Queen

'Don't worry,' Jez'e-bel says, 'I will get it for you.'

So Jez'e-bel writes letters to some chief men in the city where this man Na'both lives.  'Get some good-for-nothing men to say that Na'both has cursed God and the king,' she tells them.  'Then take Na'both out of the city and stone him to death.'

As soon as Jez'e-bel learns that Na'both is dead, she says to A'hab: 'Now go and take his vineyard.'  Don't you agree that Jez'e-bel should be punished for doing such a terrible thing?  

So, in time, Jehovah sends the man Je'hu to punish her.  When Jez'e-bel hears that Je'hu is coming, she paints her eyes and tries to fix herself up pretty. But when Je'hu comes and sees Jez'e-bel in the window, he calls to the men in the palace.  'Throw her down!' The men obey.  They throw her down, and she dies.  This is the end of wicked Queen Jez'e-bel.

1 Kings 16:29-33; 18:1-4; 21:1-16; 2 Kings 9:30-47.

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