Talk:Athaliah

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Wait, isn't Athalia the daughter of King Ahab, not Omri? Benami 22:44, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Although the OP is long gone, I'm sure others would be interested in the answer, so I'll give one.

The answer here depends on how three verses are understood together:

1. 2 Kings 8:18: He [Joram, king of Judah] went in the way of the kings of Israel, because the daugher if Ahab was his wife, and he did bad in the eyes of God.
2. 2 Kings 8:26: Ahaziahu [king of Judah, son of Joram] was 22 years old when he became king, and ruled for one year in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was Athaliahu, daughter of Omri king of Israel.
3. 2 Kings 8:27: He [Ahaziahu] did what was bad in the eyes of God like the house of Ahab, because he was the hatan of the house of Ahab.

These verses leave 2 questions to be asked: firstly, what does the word chatan mean in this verse (not groom, the normal meaning of this word); and secondly, how do you deal with the contradiction between the first 2 verses here. Animal lover 666 (talk) 00:33, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Mistake

There's at least one mistake in this article :
"Second Kings 8:29" doesn't say "that Jehoram, Athaliah's husband, was related by marriage (hatan) to the house of Ahab".
Can anybody help and tell me what the sources (Katzenstein & Thiel) really say ? It would help me to make the French page about Athaliah. Thanks -- Jan^IIISobieski 14:19, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Athaliah would have been born in 877E BCE at the earliest? Typo?

What does 877E mean? (PeacePeace (talk) 15:41, 2 May 2018 (UTC))