Jezebel

Jezebel (Phoenician; meaning possibly where is the prince? or Baal is the prince; ironically rendered in Hitchcock as chaste) was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon, and queen of Israel as wife of King Ahab (c. 874–853 B.C.). Her marriage represented the first time the reigning king of Israel married a foreign princess who was herself devoted to a foreign deity — Baal of Sidon — and who used the power of the throne to impose that worship on Israel (1 Kings 16:31; 18:19).

Jezebel massacred the prophets of the LORD, maintained 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah at royal expense, intimidated Elijah into flight after Carmel, and engineered the judicial murder of Naboth to seize his vineyard for Ahab. Elijah pronounced her doom (1 Kings 21:23), and it was fulfilled when Jehu's horses trampled her and dogs consumed her body at Jezreel (2 Kings 9:30-37), leaving only her skull, feet, and hands. In the New Testament, her name becomes a type: the letter to Thyatira condemns a prophetess called "Jezebel" who leads God's people into sexual immorality and idolatry (Revelation 2:20).