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Encyclopedia > Athalie
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Athaliah is a figure from the Old Testament in the Bible. She was the granddaughter of Omri, a king of Israel (the Northern Kingdom, after Israel was divided after the death of King Solomon) from 882-871 BC who is condemned in the Old Testament as idolatrous and evil. She was the wife of Jehoram (or Joram), king of Judah the Southern Kingdom (851-843 BC) and mother of Ahaziah (or Jehoahaz), king of Judah (843-842). The Bible condemns her for her encouragement of her husband and son's evil ways. She herself reigned as queen of Judah, from 842-836, after the death of her son Ahaziah and her murder of all his sons but Joash, who escapes by his mother's intervention. Athaliah dies in 836 with the planned revolt of the priest Jehoiada and the return of the seven-year old Joash to claim the throne. Her story is chronicled in 2 Kings 8:18, 27; 11:1-16 and retold in 2 Chronicles 22:2, 10-12; 23:1-15. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Athaliah (Hebrew Atalyahu (עתליה), God is exalted) was the queen of Judah during the reign of King Jehoram, and later became sole ruler of Judah for five years. ... Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh to refer to its canon, which corresponds to the Protestant Old Testament. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ...


French tragedian Jean Racine wrote a 1691 play about this Biblical queen, entitled Athalie. Jean Racine. ...


The musician and composer Handel composed a 1733 oratorio based on her life, called Athalia, calling her a "Baalite Queen of Judah Daughter of Jezebel." Jezebel (Bible) was the infamous foreign and idolatrous wife of King Ahab of Israel, so naming Athaliah her daughter is merely figurative, based on their tendency toward idolatry. Baal was the fertility god of the Canaanites, whom the ancient Israelites often fell into worshipping in the Old Testament. HANDEL was the code-name for the UKs National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. ... The Death of Jezebel by Gustave Doré. Jezebel (Hebrew: אִיזֶבֶל / אִיזָבֶל, Standard  / Tiberian  /  ; not exalted) is the name of two women in the Bible. ... For other uses, see Baal (disambiguation). ...


Sources: Athalia, by Handel; The New Oxford Annotated Bible, third edition (2001), page 582.


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