Athaliah: Whom God afflicts.1. The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king
of Judah
(2 Kings 8:18) who "walked in the ways of the house of Ahab"
(2 Chronicles 21:6) called "daughter" of Omri
(2 Kings 8:26) On the death of
her husband and of her son Ahaziah, she resolved to seat herself
on the vacant throne. She slew all Ahaziah's children except
Joash, the youngest
(2 Kings 11:1,2) After a reign of six years she
was put to death in an insurrection
(2 Kings 11:20; 2 Chronicles 21:6)
(2 Chronicles 22:10-12; 23:15) stirred up among the people in connection
with Josiah's being crowned as king.
2.
(Ezra 8:7)
3.
(1 Chronicles 8:26)
