Close Encounters of the Third Kind aliens as God and Roy Neary as Moses. Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" is seen on television at the Neary household. Some found close relations between Elijah and Roy; Elijah was taken into a "chariot of fire", akin to Roy going in the UFO. Climbing Devils Tower behind the faltering Jillian, Neary exhorts Jillian to keep moving and not to look back, similar to Lot's wife who looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt. Spielberg explained, "I wanted to make "Close Encounters" a very accessible story about the everyday individual who has a sighting that
Wife of Jeroboam Wife of Jeroboam The wife of Jeroboam is a character in the Hebrew Bible. She is unnamed in the Masoretic Text, but according to the Septuagint, she was an Egyptian princess called Ano: She is mentioned in 1 Kings 14, which describes how she visited the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite. Her son Abijah was sick, and on her husband Jeroboam's instructions she disguised herself and went to Ahijah. Although Ahijah was blind, he immediately recognised her and gave her a message of judgment. This included the death of her son, who was to die as soon as Jeroboam's wife came