What Kind of Wife Should You Be?

Part Two of Great Marriages of the Bible

File: Lucas van Leyden, Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyard to King Ahab, 1516-1519, NGA 11601.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Welcome to part two of my very brief wedding preparation series, Great Marriages of the Bible. Yesterday was about Lamech and his two wives, Ada and Zillah, which you can find here. Today is about my all-time favorite marriage in the Bible: Ahab and Jezebel.

Let me just say, if you’re new to this blog (WELCOME), you should be aware that I love the Bible. It is God’s holy Word, all of it is about the Risen Christ, and all of it is useful for the building up of the believer, for correction and rebuke, and for cutting out the corruption and rot of sin. Also, it is replete with subtle moments of the divine side-eye. You can’t go into the text thinking, ‘God is showing me how to be a better person in this story so that I will win his praise and acclaim through my hard work and cheerful disposition.’ It’s more like, well, let’s just take a gander at the “lovely” couple. They take up an enormous amount of biblical real estate. Their spiritual footprint is like that yacht that Bezos drags around beyond his main yacht because he doesn’t want to have to sleep near his domestic staff.