History Characters / BooksOfKings

* TookALevelInBadass: Jewish and Islamic legends say he fought demons.

* AgeLift: 41 at the time of his coronation in the Masoretic Text, [[https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/septuagint/chapter.asp?book=11&page=12 but 16 in the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: He was always scheming to displace the Davidic dynasty in Judah with his own through intermarriage, though that was more Jezebel's plan than his idea.

* CharacterExaggeration: Over the years, her defining feature has become a [[SexIsEvil sexual, seductive nature]] when, in reality, she was an influential and powerful, if evil, queen.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

* PoisonousFriend: Lead her husband Ahab down the path of Baal worship and is usually considered to be a bit more evil than he.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Him and the widow, arguably.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Wrote the ''Literature/SongOfSongs'' (aka the Song of Solomon). Some interpret it as being a metaphor for self-sacrificing love between God and his people, while others interpret as being a steamy love poem. Still others take the view that it is meant to be read as both, [[DoubleEntendre equally and simultaneously.]]

* UpToEleven: David had multiple wives and originally [[YourCheatingHeart cheated on all of them with Solomon's mother]] before marrying her. Solomon outdoes his father and, well... see the numbers above.

* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Sheba?]]: Debates range to this day.

** NamesTheSame: The Pagan cult leader from Thyatira at the beginning of Revelation is also called Jezebel. It's not specified whether or not that's the woman's actual name or if Christ was using the name as a byword for a woman who leads others into idolatry.

** NamesTheSame: She is confused with a pagan cult leader mentioned in Revelation.

[[WMG: Mannaseh, King of Judah]]

* MoralEventHorizon: The [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice of his son to Molech]] before his HeelFaceTurn is the direct catalyst that convinces God to hand Judah into the hands of Babylon.

* DubInducedPlothole: A nice prophet guy summoning bears to maul what King James and co. translate as "children" makes a ''lot'' more sense when you look at the actual Hebrew word and see what it means and how it was used. He was being mocked by a gang of 42 young men (as in [[TeensAreMonsters late teens to early 20's]]), which could have been a threat, especially if they were soldiers.

* ThinkNothingOfIt: He refused to take a material reward for curing Naaman of leprosy; however, his friend Gehazi gladly took Naaman's stuff, and for that, he got leprosy himself.

* DubInducedPlothole: A nice prophet guy summoning bears to maul what King James and co. translate as "children" makes a ''lot'' more sense when you look at the actual Hebrew word and see what it means and how it was used. He was being mocked by a gang of 42 young men (as in late teens to early 20's), which could have been a threat, especially if they were soldiers.

* MyGirlIsASlut: A rather tragic subversion, in that Hosea was trying to make a respectable wife out of her, but she kept going back to old habits.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Wrote the ''Literature/SongOfSongs'' (aka the Song of Solomon). Some interpret it as being a metaphor for self-sacrificing love between God and his people, while others interpret as being a steamy love poem.

* TheCasanova: He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, which is more than anyone else in Literature/TheBible. Also, if you read the Song of Songs of Solomon, you can see that he sure knew how to sweet talk women.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Wrote the Song of Songs (aka the Song of Solomon). Some interpret it as being a metaphor for self-sacrificing love between God and his people, while others interpet as being a steamy love poem.

-->''"I will purge the house of Ahab like I had done to the houses of Jeroboam and Baasha. Anyone who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs and anyone who dies in the country will be eaten by birds!"''

* CassandraTruth: Even after Jerusalem's destruction, the remaining Jews who'd seen ''every one of his prophecies'' come true still refused to follow his advice to stay where they were and submit to Babylon, dragging him off to Egypt with them where he made his final prophecy that Babylon would also eventually conquer Egypt.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Jeremiah is known as the "weeping prophet" for his oracles, which sound like the laments of a man living in a waking nightmare.