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Athaliah – Queen of Judah during the reign of King Jehoram, and later became sole ruler of Judah for five years. II Kings, II Chronicles [21] [22] Azubah #1 – Caleb's wife. I Chronicles [23] Azubah #2 – wife of King Asa, 3rd king of Judah, and mother of Jehoshaphat. I Kings, II Chronicles [24] [25]
Esther, [a] originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus falls in love with Esther and marries her. [1]
The story of the biblical Queen Athaliah was the inspiration for one of the greatest tragedies of French dramatist Jean Racine, Athalie. [151] [152] The opera Salome by Richard Strauss was highly controversial when first composed due to its combination of biblical theme, eroticism and murder. [153]
Gustave Doré, The Death of Athaliah.. Accounts of Athaliah’s life are found in 2 Kings 8:16–11:16 and 2 Chronicles 22:10–23:15 in the Hebrew Bible.According to the chroniclers, she was the daughter of king Omri of Israel; [1] however, she is usually considered to have been the daughter of King Ahab – the son of Omri – and his wife, Queen Jezebel. [2]
Jesus, in Matthew and Luke, did not directly reference Queen Sheba as the Queen of the South. [5] An account also cited that the "Queen of the South" was a reference to a queen of Egypt because the term "king of the South" was recognized as a biblical term for the Egyptian monarch. [6] There are also claims that the term south refers to ...
Esther (Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר) is a female given name known from the Jewish queen Esther, eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. According to the Hebrew Bible, queen Esther was born with the name הֲדַסָּה Hadassah ("Myrtle"). Her name was changed to Esther to hide her identity upon becoming queen of Persia.
Jezebel is introduced into the biblical narrative as a Phoenician princess, the daughter of Ithobaal I, king of Tyre (1 Kings 16:31 says she was "Sidonian", which is a biblical term for Phoenicians in general). [12] According to genealogies given in Josephus and other classical sources, she was the great-aunt of Dido, Queen of Carthage. [12]
Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 64: 597– 618. Brewer-Boydston, Ginny M. (2016), Good Queen Mothers, Bad Queen Mothers: The Theological Presentation of the Queen Mother in 1 and 2 Kings, Catholic Biblical Association of America. Cushman, Beverly W. (2006). "The Politics of the Royal Harem and the Case of Bat-Sheba".
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