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Jesus and the Jezebel Spirit

Jesus and the Jezebel Spirit

In Which I Ponder the Conundrum of Jezebel in the Bible.

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Apr 17, 2024
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This is what came up when I typed “girl boss” into the Unsplash search bar, I kid you not:

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Photo by Vanesa Giaconi on Unsplash

Speaking of a Jezebel Spirit, I was charmed to see that Sheila Wray Gregoire has made some cool merch for her brand. This is the new logo:

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I like the Pioneer Woman vibe and all the cheerful flowers. I imagine lots of people will clamor to buy a lot of stuff.

Not being charismatic, I didn’t know what a Spirit of Jezebel was, but fortunately, the X App was forthcoming:

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What kind of “spirit” is it when you try to make a buck with some kind of stunt? Because I feel like that “spirit” is alive, and indeed, the principal organizing agent of the age.

My question is, does anyone know about Jezebel, like from the Bible? Have the people accusing other people of having her “spirit” read the relevant texts? What about the people calling Wray Gregoire one? I don’t know—maybe a preponderance of Jezebel Busters have read through the entire Scriptures and are on firm ground inventing a “Jezebel Spirit” and otherwise throwing the name about hither and yon. I definitely heard Mark Driscoll quote a Bible verse, so I’m sure it’s fine.

Jezebel—the one of the Old Testament—is a fascinating figure who leaps off the page. I think a lot of modern women would not really like her for in some ways she appears to be “traditional.” Not exactly a trad-wife, but certainly someone who put the concerns and anxieties of her sniveling, egotistical, idolatrous husband before her own. I’m sure you remember how Ahab, when he happened upon Naboth’s luxurious and well-appointed vineyard, was suddenly overcome by the overweening desire to have it. But Naboth wouldn’t sell it to him. And so he slunk home and climbed into bed and “turned his face to the wall,” even refusing his din din.

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