ATHALIAH
(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 shedding 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).