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The people rejoiced to have their legitimate king take the throne. Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab king of Israel (2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chronicles 21:6; 22:2-3). Jehoshebas husband was Jehoida, the High-Priest. Athaliah married King Joram, son of Judah's King Jehoshaphat. His great-grandson Simeon ben Gamliel became one of the Jewish leaders during the First JewishRoman War.[30]. The Davidic line or House of David (Hebrew: , romanized:Beit David) refers to the lineage of the Israelite king David. [7] If, however, the numbers are referring to allies, they could possibly include forces from Tyre, Judah, Edom, and Moab. With the ever-present menace of Syria and the growing threat of Assyria, Ahab decided that he needed an alliance with this neighboring nation, so he made a treaty with the king of Phoenicia and sealed it by marrying his daughter. endstream
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Wilhelm Bacher, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach (1906). 2:25, Heb. i. 1:12; Coniah, Jer. It was the lowest point in the godly prophets great career. Jezebel was fanatical about her religion. According to 1 Kings 20, war later erupted between Ahab and king Hadadezer of Aram-Damascus (which the Bible refers to as "Ben-Hadad II") and that Ahab was able to defeat and capture him; however, soon after that, a peace treaty was made between the two and alliance between Israel and Aram-Damascus was formed. He wants to conquer them with His love. Ahaziah: Jehoram king of Judah and Ahab king of Israel each had a son with this name, but neither of them reigned for very long. Nevertheless, he paid great respect to the representatives of learning, "to the Torah given in twenty-two letters," for which reason he was permitted to reign for twenty-two successive years. And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to those who reared Ahab's sons, saying: "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a . [32] He will not only enable you to carry through with your decision to act in love, but He will give you genuine delight in doing His will. What kind of a man are you? So he showed her by roughing her up a little, and then by turning to cheating and stealing to make ends meet. Intermarriage between Israelite and Judean royalty added a twisted mess of seriously bad branches toJoashs family tree. . [26] Even so, as for David and his immediate descendants themselves, the position of some scholars, as described by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed, espouses that David and Solomon may well be based on "certain historical kernels", and probably did exist in their own right, but their historical counterparts simply could not have ruled over a wealthy lavish empire as described in the Bible, and were more likely chieftains of a comparatively modest Israelite society in Judah and not regents over a kingdom proper.[27]. 21:4). Jehoram was the last of Ahab and Jezebel's children to be king over Israel. So he explained to her how Naboth refused to let him have his vegetable garden. But like David, who recognized his sin, God restores repentant hearts. The Hasmoneans, who established their own monarchy in Judea in the 2nd century BCE, were not considered connected to the Davidic line nor to the Tribe of Judah. She slaughtered all the royal heirs, or so she thought. The first was Ahaziah.