Jezebel
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the woman Jezebel
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Wife of Ahab, mentioned in connection with his idolatry.
likewise that king Ahab, the husband of Jezebel, guilty of idolatry and of the blood of Naboth, earned pardon under the name of penitence;
easy to be bent too by Hezekiah's weeping, and by Ahab, the husband of Jezebel, beseeching that the blood of Naboth be forgiven, and by David acknowledging his sin to indulge at once — preferring, namely, the repentance of the sinner to his death, out of the affection of mercy.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Wife of Ahab who instigates Naboth's murder and threatens Elijah.
" Then, fleeing the threatening Jezebel after the single food and drink which, awakened by the angel, he had found, he too came for forty days and nights, with empty belly and dry mouth, to Mount Horeb;
When, after his transgression and idolatry and the slaying of Naboth for his vineyard's sake at Jezebel's instigation, Elijah had reproached him—"As you have killed and taken possession of the inheritance:
De Pudicitia
Self-styled prophetess at Thyatira condemned for teaching fornication and idol-food.
— as though in the Apocalypse he had plainly set forth the help of penitence for fornication, where to the angel of the Thyatirenes the Spirit charges that he has against him that he held the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches, and seduces my servants to fornicate and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.