People of the Bible

Athaliah

– 837 BC · Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Died: Jerusalem

In the story

Reign of Athaliah · 885 BC

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 15 verses

2 Kings: 8:26, 11:1, 11:2, 11:3, 11:13, 11:14, 11:20
2 Chronicles: 22:2, 22:10, 22:11, 22:12, 23:12, 23:13, 23:21, 24:7

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.