So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.”
//In this verse, the wicked queen Jezebel promises to slay Elijah, in the same manner as Elijah killed all the prophets of Baal in the prior chapter. Jezebel never accomplished her vow. Or did she?
In the New Testament, John the Baptist is compared to Elijah multiple times, and is even spoken of as Elijah redivivus. So how did the New Testament Elijah lose his life?
By the instruction of another queen named Herodias, who demanded the head of John the Baptist on a charger.
Is Herodias, then, the second coming of Jezebel, finally fulfilling her vow?