<Tr> <Th> Parents </Th> <Td> Ithobaal I </Td> </Tr> <P> Jezebel is described in the Book of Kings (1 Kings 16: 31) as a queen who was the daughter of Ithobaal I of Sidon and the wife of Ahab, King of Israel . </P> <P> According to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead . Jezebel persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and fabricated evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death . For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, Jezebel met a gruesome death--thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs . </P> <P> In the biblical story, Jezebel became associated with false prophets . In some interpretations, her dressing in finery and putting on makeup led to the association of the use of cosmetics with "painted women" or prostitutes . </P>

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