Athaliah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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 Chr. 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 Chr. 21:6;
     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 Chr. 8:26.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Athaliah, the time of the Lord