Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. “And I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not. In similar manner to the first Jezebel, this Jezebel is also pronounced a punishment by God. This is a clear and intentional violation of God’s word. Hebrews and followers of Christ are told not to eat food sacrificed to idols. Idolatry and the worship of false gods often involved eating in addition to ritual sex.Grown people don’t need to be taught to have premarital sex. Also if you feel the need to do so on your own, just replace the word “fornication” with “premarital sex” as you read, and see if the context of the sentence makes sense. Fornication is often mistaught as “premarital sex”, but neither the Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic convey that meaning.This false doctrine included idolotry and ritual sex. Unlike the Jezebel in the Old Testament that hated the prophets and had them killed, this new Jezebel posed as a prophetess and taught false doctrine within the church. “Notwithstanding 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 fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.” – Revelation 2:20 In the New Testament we find that a different Jezebel is alive and present, and just as destructive to the church. This seems to be the most reasonable explanation of the type of dogs that ate Jezebel. A few hyenas could eat an entire corpse of a human in less than an hour. Hyenas are also known to devour corpses, including the bones. Because Israel and Egypt share a border, it is not uncommon for Striped Hyenas to be found in Israel. The Striped Hyena is native to North and East Africa, which traditionally included Israel. It doesn’t seem logical that “dogs” would devour a human corpse in such a manner, but these may not have been dogs in the modern sense of the word. We aren’t told how much time it took Jehu to eat before giving the order to have Jezebel buried, but by the time the men go to bury her, only her head, hands, and feet were left. If the fall didn’t kill her, being trampled by horses certainly would’ve finished the job. Not only was Jezebel thrown out of a window, but upon hitting the ground her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses. And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.” – 2 Kings 9:33-35 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king’s daughter. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. When Jehu arrived, he saw Jezebel in a window with her face painted (2 Kings 9:30), so he ordered her to be thrown out the window: When it came time for Jezebel to die, her death was actually a lot more violent than just being eaten by dogs.
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