²⁰ But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^(A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^(B)to practice sexual immorality and ^(C)to eat food sacrificed to idols.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of ^(A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might ^(B)eat food sacrificed to idols and ^(C)practice sexual immorality.

³¹ And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^(A)he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the ^(B)Sidonians, ^(C)and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

¹⁸ Consider ^(A)the people of Israel:^{[a] (B)}are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? ¹⁹ What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that ^(C)an idol is anything? ²⁰ No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice ^(D)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. ^21 (E)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and ^(F)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and ^(G)the table of demons.

^29 (A)that you abstain from ^(B)what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

⁷ And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge ^(A)on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord.

²⁰ but should write to them ^(A)to abstain from ^(B)the things polluted by idols, and from ^(C)sexual immorality, and from ^(D)what has been strangled, and from ^(E)blood.

Jehu Executes Jezebel

³⁰ When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And ^(A)she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window. ³¹ And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, ^(B)“Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?” ³² And he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. ³³ He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her. ³⁴ Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, ^(C)for she is a king's daughter.” ³⁵ But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. ³⁶ When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ^(D)‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, ³⁷ and the corpse of Jezebel shall be ^(E)as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”

²³ And of Jezebel the Lord also said, ^(A)‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within ^(B)the walls of Jezreel.’ ^24 (C)Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”

Ahab's Repentance

²⁵ (^(D)There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.