Athaliah
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Gotholia
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
Gotholia (Athaliah), of the family of Ahab, who seized the throne for eight years after killing the royal children.
After him Gotholia, the mother of Ozias, reigns eight years, having killed the children of her own brother;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Queen-mother of Judah who massacred the royal house to seize the throne, per the Hebrew Chronicles.
’ Athaliah, the queen-mother in Judah, that ‘wicked woman,’ seeing that her son King Ahaziah was dead, arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.