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.
Person
Athaliah
- Name means
- the time of the Lord
- Lived
- died c. 878 BC
- Died
- Jerusalem
- Belongs to
- Genealogy of Jesus
- Mentioned
- 15 verses · first in 2 Kings 8:26
Family
About Athaliah
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
On the timeline
- 885 BCReign of Athaliah2 Kings 11:1–3
On the map
Every mention
Others called Athaliah
People data: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0). Dates are traditional estimates.