Ahaziah: King Athaliah

“ATHALIAH”
When Ahab was in good relationship with Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, his daughter Athaliah fell in love and married king Jehoshaphat’s son named Jehoram. These union brought the daughter of the Canaanite Jezebel into the family of king David. After the death of Jehoshaphat, his son Jehoram became the king of Judah and Athaliah the daughter of Jezebel became the queen of the kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 8:16-19; 1 kings 22:50). In process of time, Athaliah bore two children for king Jehoram whose names were Ahaziah, and Jehoshabeath. When Jehoram the king of Judah died, his mixed Canaanite son Ahaziah succeeded him on the throne and became the next king of Judah and reigned for one year in Jerusalem and was evil. Ahaziah was the second generation of the descendants of Queen Jezebel (2 kings 8:23-27). Ahaziah the
While he was there, Jehu rode in a chariot to Jezreel and assassinated both Jehoram the king of Israel and Ahaziah the king of Judah (2 kings 8:28-29; 9:16, 21-23, 27-29; 2 chronicles 22:1-9). When Athaliah daughter of Jezebel and Ahab heard that her son “Ahaziah” was dead, that she arose and destroyed all her grandsons who were the royal seed of the house of Judah, and next on the throne. However, Jehoshabeath sister of the king, and the daughter of Athaliah took one of his brother’s son “Joash” and fled with him and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Joash and his nurse was hidden in the house of the Lord for six years, and Athaliah the Canaanite daughter of Jezebel reigned over the land of Judah as the queen for six years almost seven as the first and the only female who ruled in the kingdom of Judah and Israel instead of a King (2 chronicles 22:10-12; 2 kings 11:1-3). Later when she realized that Joash one of her grandson escaped her massacre and he was in the process of been crown king over Judah, that Athaliah fought to stop her grandson from becoming the king, and her son in-law and the people of Judah conspired against