is the daughter of priest/king of Tyre and Sidon. She married King Ahab to ratify an alliance between Tyre and Israel. She brought in apostasy through Baal worship and other false deities into Israel. Some of her domineering character qualities were manipulation. lies, control, sexual perversion of the temples, high-handed unscrupulous actions undermining the throne of Ahab, and killing of the prophets.
