Jezebel
? – 843 BCE
Phoenician

Princess. She brought foreign ways to Israel when she married King Ahab, especially the worship of Baal but also cosmetics (she is described as a painted woman). The prophet Elija denounced all this and she was eventually killed.

Contemporaries
fl. 850 BCEHomer
fl. 850 BCEElijah
fl. 850 BCEAhab