Cause of death Protection
Nationality Sidon
Nationality Queen of Israel
Phoenician ethnic group
Wicked Old Testament woman from the land of Phoenicia. She was the wife of King Ahab of Israel (1 Kings 16:30-31), who ruled during the time that Elijah was a prophet.
She tells of a Phoenician queen who restored the worship of the Semitic gods Baal, Asherah, and El during her joint reign with Ahab, and was finally driven from the palace walls by her own servants, tired of it. tradition of oppression and its extremely free forms.