How to Pronounce Athaliah
Ath-ah-LIGH-ah
Athaliah is pronounced Ath-ah-LIGH-ah (ˌæθəˈlaɪə): four syllables, stress on the third. Also heard: ATH-uh-LYE-uh.
What does Athaliah mean?
Athaliah means “the time of the Lord”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Who was Athaliah?
Whom God afflicts. (1.) 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. (2.) Ezra 8:7. (3.) 1 Chr. 8:26.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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