Chapter 2: The Queen Who Silenced God's Prophets

Jezebel was not content with a temple. She wanted an entire nation that worshiped Baal, and anyone who spoke against him had to go.

In Israel, there were prophets who served the Lord. They were the ones who reminded the people that Yahweh was the true God, that Baal was a lie, and that Israel had a covenant it was breaking.

So she had them killed. Not one or two. She organized a campaign to hunt down every prophet of the Lord she could find. One by one, the voices went silent across the land.

But not all of them.

A man named Obadiah served as the administrator of Ahab's palace. He ran the king's household and answered to the throne. But in secret, at the risk of his own life, he hid a hundred of God's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and kept them alive with bread and water while Jezebel hunted for them above ground.

At the same time, Jezebel filled the palace with prophets of her own. Four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal. All of them fed from the queen's table, living under royal protection.