Athaliah:
whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2Ki 8:18), who "walked in the ways of the house of Ahab" (2Ch 21:6), called "daughter" of Omri (2Ki 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 (2Ki 11:1,2). After a reign of six years she was put to death in an insurrection (2Ki 11:20; 2Ch 21:6; 22:10-12; 23:15), stirred up among the people in connection with Josiah's being crowned as king.
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