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This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. I'm here in the podcast studio with our one and only guest, Jezebel.

Just kidding. Our guest today couldn't make it. So we're going to talk about her. I'm kidding again. This is a bad joke. It would be impossible to have Jessabel on the podcast. If that joke was lost about you, it was bad. Don't worry about it. We'll move on.

But I think you all should know that at one time I asked my mom what she and my dad would have

named me if they didn't name me Emma. And I kid you not, my mom, without skipping a beat,

said Jezebel. Now, she was totally kidding. I'm confident that name was not in the running,

and there's a reason why no one is actually naming their child Jezebel. But today's chapter

is First Kings 19, and it's in this passage that we see Elijah flee Jezebel. In the passage

begins like this, switching to serious mode. Verse one.

When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed

all the prophets of Bail. So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah. May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time

tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them. Verse three, Elijah was afraid and fled for his

life. He went to Bersheba, a town in Judah, and he left his servant there. Then he went on alone

into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom

tree and prayed that he might die. I have had enough, Lord, he said, take my life, for I am no

better than my ancestors who have already died. It's candidly a pretty depressing situation.

So to set the scene, let's make sure we get our character straight.

Who is King Ahab and who is Jezebel? The Got Questions website puts it like this.

Jezebel, it's a name synonymous with evil. She is the epitome of the wicked woman.

So infamous is her name that to this day, no one names their baby daughter, Jezebel.

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