1 Kings 21:5-16
"5 But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?” 6 And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” 7 And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city. 9 And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. 10 And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” 11 And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, 12 they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. 13 And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”
15 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.” 16 And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it."
Jezebel's plot against Naboth can only be described as fiendish. With a ruthless cunning bearing the stamp of modern secret police methods, she initiated a horrible conspiracy against him and 'framed' him by means of false witnesses. One cannot help exclaiming at the thoroughness of her work - it was a masterpiece of evil ingenuity, all accomplished officially so that the people had no inkling that grave injustice was being done. It is clear that Jezebel held complete sway in the court - else how could she have kept such a plot shrouded in secrecy? Such power is never merely the power of a very strong human personality, but derived from the dark overlord of hell himself. Jezebel was not only wicked - she was abandoned to wickedness and the result was demonic power and cunning. This is borne out in the whole tenor of the passage; the harsh arrogance in her voice (7), and the pitiless drive against a humble man, and the satisfied, triumphant way in which she bade Ahab take possession of the coveted vineyard (15) all these are tell-tale pointers to the origin of the evil urge within her. We do not see this in Ahab himself; his sins were the sins of weakness, and he was merely the dupe of her infernal schemings. Where and when the one kind of sin develops and merges into the other it may be difficult to say, but it is certain that the more specifically 'spiritual', as opposed to fleshly, sin is, the more demonic it becomes, Ahab was the victim of sensual appetites; but Jezebel was consumed by vaunting ambitions and raging, implacable hatred against the living God. That was why she turned into a devil.