Excerpt from The Days of Jezebel: An Historical Drama Possess of her reign were composed by Hebrewsfor whom it was both patriotism and religion to hate her with a perfect hatred. This hatred did not, I believe, induce them to deviate from strict veracity; but it made Jezebel's character and actions a supremely disagreeable subject, and they -said as little of her as they could. When the shadow of Jezebel falls upon their page, it announces itself in black, but it flits by with spectre-like swiftness. Only in the instances of her message to Elijah, her interference against Naboth, and her death, have we minute details. She issued, apparently at an early period in her reign, an edict for the slaughter of the prophets of Jehovah. This was manifestly a cardinal event in the history of the time. It probably initiated Jezebel's policy of exterminating persecution, and it is a reasonable supposition that the profound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.