- Question 1: This pagan born Israelite queen persecuted God's prophets, murdered the innocent, and promoted pagan worship in Israel. When she knew that her enemies had come to kill her, she applied her eye-shadow and fixed her hair before being thrown from the window of her palace, trampled by horses and eaten by dogs. She and her husband died as prophesied by the prophet Elijah. Her name became a symbol for sinful women.
- Answer: Jezebel was a princess from the pagan city of Sidon who became the wife of King Ahab of Israel (1 Kng 21:17-23; 2 Kng 9:30-37; Rev 2:20).
- Question 2: This granddaughter of Herod the Great divorced her husband to marry his brother, her uncle Herod Antipas. Their sin was condemned by St. John the Baptist.
- Answer: Herodias (Mt 14:3-4; Mk 6:17-19; Lk 3:19-20).
- Question 3: This bad girl danced at her step-father's birthday party and as her reward asked for the head of John the Baptist at the urging of her mother.
- Answer: The daughter of Herodias who was the wife of Herod Antipas the ruler of the Galilee and Perea (Mt 14:3-12; Mk 6:17-19). The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus tells us her name was Salome.
- Question 4: Joseph son of Jacob-Israel was thrown into an Egyptian prison because of the false accusation of this woman.
- Answer: Potiphar's wife (Gen 39:7-20).
- Question 5: What wicked queen mother gave the order to kill all the royal children in order to become the ruler of the nation of Judah upon the death of her son King Ahaziah? Only a single grandson, hidden in the Temple by his aunt Jehosheba, the wife of Jehoiada the High Priest, survived.
- Answer: Athaliah, the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kng 8:25-27; 11:1-3; 2 Chr 22:10-12).
- Question 6: What bad girl took an Israelite hero's heart and his hair, which resulted in the loss of his strength and his capture by the Philistine enemy?
- Answer: Delilah (Judg 16:4-21).
- Question 7: This woman and her husband, who were members of the Jewish-Christian community in Jerusalem, lied about a contribution they made to the Church. St. Peter told her that she and her husband had lied to God and as a result they both died.
- Answer: Sapphira the wife of Ananias (Acts 5:1-11).
- Question 8: This woman practiced a profession strictly forbidden by God. King Saul asked her to conjure up the dead prophet Samuel.
- Answer: The witch of Endor (1 Sam 28:8-14).
- Question 9: During fertility rites honoring the pagan god Baal, this Midianite woman invited a prince of the tribe of Simeon to commit the sin of fornication near God's Sanctuary on the Plains of Peor. She and her lover were executed by the priest Phinehas.
- Answer: Cozbi, the daughter of Zur who was head (prince) of a Midianite clan (Num 25:1-14).
- Question 10: This woman failed to heed the angel's warning not to turn back and look at the doomed city of Sodom.
- Answer: The wife of Abraham's nephew Lot (Gen 19:17-26).
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