The Last Story Of Jezebel

LaPlante, Eve. Amrican Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.

It is a theme among Christian writing to not discuss topics that are at the core of human condition and Terrell logically explains that if the Bible talks about a subject then so can Christian fiction. Once Terrell presents the option that the Bible is the model for all Christian writing, his audience of Christian readers and writers are able to relate the fiction they 've read to the stories of the Bible. Terrell lists themes found in the Bible confidently, knowing that his audience has previous knowledge of Bible stories and its discussion of topics such as the grotesque, the earthly, the tragic, and damnation (251). Judges contains a few examples of grotesque topics such as when God 's servant Enud stabbed King Eglon and the King 's fat enveloped the sword or when Jael drove a

His aunt argues the violation of human rights and the decimation of six million Jews. After seeing how horrible atrocities can be committed without justice she asserts that bad deeds are really only wrong if you get caught and that there really is no moral justice in the world. Her contention that "might is right" and there are no punishments for wrongdoing. By witnessing the lack of retribution by God or his moral agents this leads Judah to soon believe his actions would go unpunished by God and ultimately plays a large part in Judah’s short lived

Abigail is a very deceitful character. Abigail was the character in the story that caused the trials by falsely accusing others. At the start of the story Abigail starts accusing the women in town to draw attention to herself. While the attention was on Tituba to turn the attention back on herself, Abigail exclaims, “… I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand; I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the devil!” (45). This was the staring point of where all the girls started accusing the innocent women in town. By the end of the story, Abigail is still very deceitful when she lies in the court room about seeing the bird and claiming its Mary Warren. “Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; its God’s work I do” “Mary, please don’t hurt me!” (107). This quote shows how deceitful she really is because there wasn’t really a

Josiah found the copy of the law of God in the temple and when he heard the news that the people were not following the law, gathered all the people and kings to promise to obey the book of law. Jerusalem was filled with pilgrims for keeping the passover. They sacrificed more than 45,000 sacrifices. After the temple was refinished, The king of Egypt and his army gathered with the king of Jerusalem. The king of Egypt told the king of Jerusalem that the Lord had spoken to him telling him that if the king of Jerusalem interferes with him he will destroy the kingdom. In the battle, Josiah was badly hurt and died a few days later. Then, Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, instead of tearing his clothes he tore apart the book and the whole generation changed. Jehoahaz was the king of Judah for three months. When pharaoh defeated his father the kingdom, Judah was handed over to the Egyptians. He allowed the people to go back to practicing idolatry. When he stopped listening to the king of Egypt he imprisoned him and send him to Egypt where he died. Jehoiakim reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years and for the first four years he paid large tribute to Egypt and he reestablished idolatry then in 605 B.C., the Babylonian king, King Nebuchadnezzar, fought with Pharaoh and

“I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornification; and she repented not” (Revelation 2: 20-21 The Revelation of Saint John the Divine.) Nadine was taken in by Boulder’s community, only to betray them, kills them, and take Harold with her.

Furthermore showing that women are tied to men and whatever life the man lives the women does also. Honor and shame are the two main recurring motifs that drive this chapter and that we may use as morals for our own lives. A lot of the verses of this chapter have much deeper meaning, symbolism, and history. Different verses and phrases are described and explained in various encyclopedias and dictionaries. Verse 8 reads, “Now a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph”.

being covetous, incestuous, lascivious, vengeful, choleric and many more). During the time of the Inquisition, the term witchcraft gained a new meaning. It didn’t only limit itself to prescribing certain acts of earlier pagan religions as not virtuous, but to be an act of Devil worship. An example of the kinds of negative consequences that would result of consulting witchcraft is the story of King Saul and the Witch of Endor in the book of Samuel 1.He is the first king, appointed by the prophet Samuel. He has a couple of shining moments when he defeats the Ammonites. He commits his first big mistake not soon after, he spares the Amalekites who are sworn enemies of the Jewish people, as per dictated by God. After he spared the Amalekites, he is tormented by the Lord’s unresponsiveness to his pleas. He is full of doubts, concerning his upcoming battle with the Philistines and their leader, David. When his doubts are not appeased via prophet, a dream and such, he decides to go to this woman, who is also called “familiar with

For example while Abigail is the ugly of the Crucible. She starts accusing the people of Salim. Abigail is a sick minded, thief and liar,

Evil is easily confused with good. In the book, The Crucible, evil takes over Abigail Williams. Abigail serves as the spark of hate in the play. She

Jezebel was the one who executed the prophets of God, and she was also the one who executed Naboth and took over his land, and gave it to her husband Ahab (1 Kings 18:13; 21:1-19). Ahab was very close to his Canaanite in-laws through which he was fully introduced into idolatry. The Lord said that he did abominable things in going after idols, as had the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the Israelites. Here the bible told us the reason God cast out the Canaanites and gave their land to the Israelites, was because of idol worship. However, Ahab repented, but the Lord said that He will bring evil against his family after his death, and not before him (1 kings 21:25-29; Revelation 2:20-23). When Ahab and Jezebel were married, they had two sons and one daughter together who were mixed black Hamitic Canaanite and Hebrew Semitic bloodline, whose names were Ahaziah, Jehoram-Joram, and Athaliah (1 Kings 22:40, 51-52; 2 Kings 1:17; 3:1; 8:18). In this Biblical story, we came to known that Jezebel who was a full blood Canaanite became a queen who ruled all the children of Israel, however, their evil came to an end when the Lord put an end to their lives (1 Kings 21:23; 22: 34-35; 2 kings 9:8,

He states that “common vengeance writes the law” revealing that he does know of Abigail’s potential motive to accuse Elizabeth, but also indicates that he is too ashamed of his own sins and actions to yet tell others about what occurred(73).

One major idea that this article discusses is that lying is not looked down upon as long as it is done for the right reasons. If a weaker group uses deception to gain an advantage over a stronger group, they are not punished but instead praised and defended. However, it is not acceptable if a stronger power uses sneaky measures to hinder a weaker power. The association between women and lying is so commonly made because of the fact that women were inferior to men in biblical times, thus making their deceptive measures acceptable in the sight of others, especially God. Deception appears to be a commonly used tool by women in the Old Testament and this article examines the condemnation of their actions as well as the defense of their actions.

After Solomon died, the kingdom was divided into two: the Northern Kingdom, called Israel and the Southern Kingdom, called Judah. Common elements of two nations are that both the kings of Israel and Judah practiced idolatry. One of the most terrible king of Israel is king Ahab who ignores the God and spread idol worship of Baal. Although many of the kings served idols, a few kings of Judah served the God faithfully. One of the good kings of Judah is king Jehoshaphat who worshiped the God and educate his people do so too.

The evil act is the murder of Naboth the Jezreelite. God, via Elijah the Tishbite, accuses Ahab: “Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?” (1 Kings 21: 19). He goes on to state, “ ‘I have found you,’