Autumn Quiz 2013

[oxburgh2]

Herman Melville character 4 letters 55 "He married a foreign wife and allowed her gods" Is it simply Ahab? Can't find confirmation of this.

[mazie]

1. Ahab (captain)

[sandyRoe]

He married Jezabel, a foreign wife.

[dannyk13]

Yes

[oxburgh2]

Thank you mazie and sandyRoe

[oxburgh2]

And dannyk13 thanks to.

[mazie]

Sorry I only read the first part of your question. I think it is. the other Ahab refers to the 7th King of Israel. Don't know if he allowed her gods.

[sandyRoe]

seems she had him twisted around her little finger.

According to the biblical accounts, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel is said to have persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and to have fabricated false evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death. For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, the Bible relates, Jezebel met a gruesome death - thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs.