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Athaliah
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Athaliah ( Gotholía; ) was the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel; she was queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and was later queen regnant c. 841–835 BC.
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- Royalty.name
- Athaliah
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- Athalia.png
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- Athaliah from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553
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- Queen regnant of Judah
- Royalty.predecessor
- Ahaziah
- Royalty.successor
- Joash
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- Queen mother of Judah
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- Tenure
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- Queen consort of Judah
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- Tenure
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- Jehoram
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- Ahaziah
- Royalty.house
- House of Omri
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- House
- Royalty.father
- Omri or Ahab
- Royalty.mother
- Jezebel?
- Royalty.birth_place
- Samaria, Kingdom of Israel
- Royalty.death_place
- Jerusalem, Kingdom of Judah
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Athaliah ( Gotholía; ) was the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel; she was queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and was later queen regnant c. 841–835 BC.
==Biblical narrative== thumb|Athaliah murders all infant claimants to the throne (Antoine Dufour, 1505) thumb|Gustave Doré, The Death of Athaliah. Accounts of Athaliah’s life are found in 2 Kings 8:16–11:16 and 2 Chronicles 22:10–23:15 in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Deuteronomist, she was the daughter of king Omri of Israel; however, she is usually considered to have been the daughter of King Ahab – the son of Omri – and his wife, Queen Jezebel. Some scholars believe Athaliah was the daughter of Omri, but that she grew up as an orphan in the court of Ahab.
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