2Ki 11:1; 2Ch 22:10-23:15
Atalia (gr. Attalía and Attáleia, “by Attalus”). Port city of Pamphylia, at the mouth of the Cataractes River. It was founded by King Attalus II (159-138 BC) of Pergamon. Her current name is Adalia. Paul and Barnabas left this port for Syria at the end of their 1st missionary journey (Acts 14:24, 25). Map XX, B-5.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
Athaliah (Heb. ‘Athalyâh and ”Athâlyâhû, “Yahweh is exalted or “afflicted by Yahweh”). She is the wife of King Joram of Judah, daughter of Ahab and granddaughter of Omri (2Ki 8:18, 26; 2Ch 21:6; 22:2), the only queen to rule in OT Hebrew history. She usurped the throne when Jehu of Israel killed his son Ahaziah (841 BC). To consolidate her position, she had all the descendants of her son killed. However, unknown to her, Joash, a very young son of Ahaziah, escaped the massacre and was hidden by Josaba (Joshebet), the wife of the high priest Jehoiada (2Ki 11:1, 2; 2Ch 22:10, eleven). As she had been raised in the idolatrous house of Ahab and Jezebel, Athaliah introduced Baal worship to Judah (2Ki 11:18; 2Ch 23:17). In the 7th year of her reign (835 BC), during an insurrection against her, Athaliah was killed and the child Joash was crowned (2Ki 11: 3-16; 2Ch 22:12; 23: 1-16). Bib.: HJ Katzenstein, IEJ 5 (1955):194-197.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
1. City located in the Asia Minor port of Pamphylia. Founded by Attalus II, King of Pergamon. Paul, on his first apostolic journey, embarked in the port of A. towards Antioch Hch 14, 24-26. 2. Queen of Judah, 841-835 BC. C., daughter of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jezebel, A. was the wife of Joram, king of Judah. Famous for her cruelty, since her son Ahaziah was assassinated, she wanted to exterminate the royal lineage, but one of them, Joash, son of Ahaziah, was saved by Yehosheba, daughter of Joram, who hid him for six years, while A. reigned. A. was dethroned by the priests, led by Yehoyadah, and supported by the royal guard, as well as by the people who rose up against the queen, who was killed by the sword, and in her place Joash was proclaimed king 2 R 8, 16 -27; eleven; 2 Chr 22 and 23.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
1. The only woman who reigned over Judah (see 2Ki 8:18, 2Ki 8:25-28; 2Ki 11:1-20; 2Ch 22:1—2Ch 23:21; 2Ch 24:7). She was the daughter of Ahab (king of Israel) and Jezebel (a devotee of Baal). Omri (king of Israel) was her grandfather and Joram (king of Judah) her husband. After the death of her son Ahaziah, Athaliah reigned for six years. She had all of Ahaziah’s sons killed except Joash who was hidden by Josabet, Ahaziah’s sister and wife of Joyada the priest.
Later, in the seventh year, Joyada conspired to put Joash on the throne.
Entering the temple to see why there was so much noise and movement, Athaliah found that the coronation had already taken place. Hers She was allowed to withdraw from the temple, so that he would not be defiled with her blood, but they killed her as she walked out of her gate.
2. Son of Jerojam, Benjamite (1Ch 8:26).
3. Father of Jeshaiah, who returned from exile (Ezr 8:7).
4. Athaliah (place). Pamphylia seaport near Perga, mentioned in Act 14:25. On his first missionary journey, Paul landed at Perga, several km. farther inland, but on his return he and Barnabas sailed for Antioch in Syria from Attalia, the chief seaport on the Gulf of Adalia, as it is now spelled. The city was founded and named by Attalus Philadelphus, King of Pergamon from 159 to 138 BC. by JC
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
Port in the province of †¢Pamphylia, in the S of Anatolia, today Turkey. Its name is derived from Italus Philadelphus, who was king of Pergamon in the years 159-138 BC. Paul passed through A. during his first missionary journey, then departed by sea for Antioch, from where he had originally left. (Acts 14:25-26). Today it is called Adalia.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
(Jehovah is strong). Name of people from the OT.
1. Queen of Judah, wife of †¢Joram (842-836 BC). She was the daughter of †¢ Ahab king of Israel. So her marriage to Joram sealed an alliance between the two kingdoms. When Joram came to the throne she murdered all his brothers the sons of Jehoshaphat (2Ch 21:4). Many believe that this crime was instigated by A. her wife, who, moreover, distinguished herself by promoting idolatry, especially the worship of Baal, to which she led her husband (2 Kings 8:18; 2Ch 21:6).
At Joram’s death, A. continued to have great influence in the reign of his son Ahaziah, which lasted only one year (2Ki 8:26). Governing in the Northern Kingdom (Israel) another Jehoram, God decided to punish his family, the house of † ¢ Ahab, which he said through the mouth of the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 9: 1-10). The one chosen for this was † ¢ Jehu, who killed Joram, king of Israel, and his relative Ahaziah, king of Judah (2Ki 9: 14-27). Seeing this, A. “destroyed all the royal line,” to secure the kingdom for herself, just as her late husband Joram, king of Judah, had done, and only the newborn Joash son of Ahaziah was spared ( 2Ki 11:1-2). Six years later a conspiracy led by the high priest †¢Jehoiada crowned †¢Joash and A. was killed and the temple of Baal destroyed (2Ki 11:4-18).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
tip, PUEM BIOG CITY WOMAN MUAT (a) Port of Pamphylia at the mouth of the Cataraktes (today called Absu), founded by King Attalus II of Pergamon; today Aralia; this city was visited by Paul on his first missionary journey (Acts 14:25). (b) Proper name meaning “Jehovah is exalted.” The wife of Joram, king of Judah; daughter of Ahab and granddaughter of Omri (2 Kings 8:18, 26; Chron. 21:6; 22:2). She had no qualms about spilling blood. She reigned six years, at the end of which Joash was exalted to the throne by a rebellion led by the priests. She was killed in the place where the horsemen entered the king’s house (2 Kings 11: 1-16; 2 Chron. 22-23).
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
A city on the coast of southern Asia Minor in ancient Pamphylia. It was on the beach of a flat limestone terrace 36 and a half meters high. It was the port of entry from Egypt and Syria to the interior of Asia Minor. It did not come to prominence as a Christian center very early. Parts of the ancient walls and towers that protected the harbor are still evident. The modern town is part inside and part outside the walls. The arcaded entrance and an aqueduct are still visible today.
Rich gardens now surround her, and she exports grain, cotton, licorice roots, and a few other things.
Paul and Barnabas passed through here on their first missionary journey, Acts 14:25.
Source: Geographic Dictionary of the Bible
“When Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she rose up and destroyed all the royal offspring.” (2 Kings 11:1)
Read: 2 Corinthians 22. There is a striking parallel between Israel’s relationship with Judah and that of the descendants of Cain, and those of Seth. Cain separated himself and his family from all God-fearing people in his day. Years later the daughters of the Hamites tempted the sons of Seth, eventually setting the stage for the flood. In the same way idolatrous Israel first separated from Judah. Then through a licentious woman, he tried to ensnare Judah, thereby setting him up for Babylonian captivity.
The licentious woman who thus prepared the moral downfall of Judah was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. She was the true personification of all the evil of her parents. Jezebel had brought the poison from Sidon and injected it into the veins of Israel. And now Athaliah was going to pour it into the veins of Jerusalem. We note in this account that a king from the house of David, instead of siding with God’s prophet in the conflict between Ahab and Elijah, decided instead in favor of Ahab’s dynasty. He even allowed Joram, crown prince, to marry Jezebel’s daughter.
If Jerusalem had not already strayed too far from Jehovah’s service, the arrival of Athaliah and her priests of Baal would have incited a backlash against the people of Jerusalem. But no such thing happened. On the contrary, Athaliah became ruler of Israel at the time she was made queen.
In many ways Athaliah resembles her own mother Jezebel, and what Athaliah did in Jerusalem is similar to what Jezebel had done in Jezreel in Samaria. Temples to Baal appeared everywhere in Jerusalem. The tenor of life in Jerusalem changed completely. Worldliness prevailed and those who feared Jehovah had to leave Jerusalem.
But Jehovah called Jehu, who eliminated Ahab’s dynasty in Israel and killed Athaliah’s son Ahaziah. In view of this, Athaliah decided to exterminate all the other children of Joram, her husband, possible heirs to the throne, and put herself in charge of it.
Miraculously, a son of Ahaziah, Joash, was saved and was hidden in the house of Jehoshaphat, a daughter of King Joram, wife of the priest Joyada. This woman was the sister of Ahaziah. Athaliah reigned six years. After this time Joyada proclaimed Joash king. Athaliah was executed and all the altars of Baal torn down.
There seems to be no limit to the capacity for evil in a woman with the entrails of Jezebel or Athaliah when she does not recognize the limits of her own human nature, or refuses to accept the limitations that God has established.
Suggested Questions for Study and Discussion:
1. What religion was Athaliah propagating?
2. How did he seek to eliminate the fear of God?
3. How did God stay his hand, and how did he help his people?
Source: Women of the Bible
(From Attalus).
Towards the end of his first missionary journey, Paul embarked from the port city of Attalia, located on the coast of Pamphylia (Asia Minor) to go to Antioch in Syria, which was about 500 km away. (Ac 14:24-26.)
Attalus II, King of Pergamum (159-138 BCE) founded Atalia, today Antalya, at the mouth of the Catarractes River. It became the main port of the province of Pamphylia, where the products of the prosperous interior region of the SW were exported. from Phrygia, and the most convenient for shipping to Syria and Egypt from central Asia Minor. Although Atalia was originally simply the port of the nearby city of Perga, located about 13 km from the coast, in the days of the apostles the port was more important than the city itself.
Source: Dictionary of the Bible
1. Queen of Judah. She was the daughter of King Ahab of Israel and his wife Jezebel, and thus the granddaughter of Omri. (2Ki 8:18, 26) She was the sister of King Jehoram of Israel and the sister or stepsister of the other 70 sons of Ahab whom Jehu ordered to be killed. (2Ki 3: 1, 2; 10: 1-9.) She was given in marriage for political convenience to Jehoram, eldest son of Jehoshaphat of Judah. (2Ki 8: 25-27; 2Ch 18: 1) She was the mother of Ahaziah, who eventually became king of Judah.
Like Jezebel, her mother, Athaliah goaded her…