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There was only one Queen of Judah and she ascended the throne using the same methods as her mother, Jezebel. Athaliah saw that her son was killed by Jehu so she quickly made the move to massacre all of her grandchildren so that no male heir would remain. She then became queen of Judah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But her plan did not fully work. Due to the quick thinking of her step daughter, Jehosheba, and the high priest, Jehoiada, her grandson, Joash, was hidden away in the Temple inner chamber. When Joash was seven years old the rebels brought him out of hiding and rid the land of Athaliah, the final evil descendant of Jezebel and Ahab.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jehoiada did not want her killed in the Temple and instead had her executed outside. This dramatic scene is depicted in 1697 Antoine Coypel\u2019s aptly named painting \u201cAthaliah Expelled from the Temple.\u201d Coypel was the court painter for Louis XV and the director of the Academie Royal. The extremely young Joash is depicted on the throne that is way too big for its youthful inhabitant. He is dressed royally, but clearly unaware of what\u2019s going on around him. The central figure is actually Jehoiada who stands firmly to his side with finger pointing at Athaliah. Athaliah is struggling against the guards and has an expression that perhaps seeks mercy from her grandson. Half the crowd watches in amazement as the queen is whisked away while the other half bows and proclaims Joash the true king. The woman in green to Joash\u2019s side may be Jehosheba, given her proximity to the young king.\u00a0 The throne itself seems to be placed haphazardly in the great hall of the Temple, perhaps there to assist in the swift coronation. Two turbaned men stand guard next to the throne. These are most likely fellow priests who helped protect the king in hiding. Too young to actually hold a sword and shield, perhaps the weapons placed at the foot of the throne are further symbols of Joash\u2019s royal lineage. The painting is extremely busy, especially the background. The mass of armed men and fitful movement helps capture the chaos of the day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> deals with the violent reign of Queen<\/span> Athaliah<\/span><\/a> of Judah (843-837 BCE). When King<\/span> Jehu<\/span><\/a> died, Athaliah set out to destroy all the remaining royal family. But,<\/span> Jehosheba<\/span><\/a> escaped the slaughter and, together with the High Priest,<\/span> Jehoiada<\/span><\/a>, hid the one-year old heir-apparent,<\/span> Joash (Jehoash)<\/span><\/a>, in the Jerusalem Temple. Six years later, Jehoiada organized a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat against Athaliah to install the seven-year-old Joash on the throne of Judah. Together with the Temple guards, Jehoiada: \u201c\u2026brought out the king\u2019s son, and placed upon him the crown and the insignia. They anointed him and proclaimed him king. They clapped their hands and shouted, \u2018Long live the King\u2019!\u201d (<\/span>II Kings 11:12<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud Bavli<\/span><\/a> elaborates on the crown of the House of David. This crown was originally on the head of the Ammonite King, or had previously crowned the Ammonite idol,<\/span> Milcam<\/span><\/a>. The crown was made from one <\/span>kikar (\u201c<\/span><\/i>talent\u201d, about 57 lbs.) of gold and encrusted with precious stones. This raises the question of how David could have been permitted to make use of a crown that had been an object of idol worship and therefore under the category of items from which deriving benefit is prohibited? To solve this difficulty, Rav Na\u1e25man suggests that one of David\u2019s Canaanite generals, Itai Ha-Giti, had revoked its status as an object of idol worship. The Talmud goes on to ask how David could support on his head such a heavy crown? Rav Yehuda says that Rav says that\u00a0 the crown did not securely encircle any human head, but rather that it was refitted to rest lightly specifically on David\u2019s head. But, Rabbi Yosi, son of Rabbi \u1e24anina, contends that the crown had a built-in magnet (<\/span>even shoevet<\/span><\/i>) that allowed the heavy golden crown to be suspended just above King David\u2019s head, creating the appearance that he was wearing it. However, Rabbi Elazar says that the crown was not actually made of a whole talent of gold, but rather that there was a precious stone on it that was worth a talent of gold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Citing the mention of the royal crown placed on the head of the seven year old, King Joash, the Talmud adds that the crown automatically fit anyone suited for kingship, but would not fit those unfit for kingship, such as Adonijah, fourth son of King David, who \u201cwent about boasting, \u2018I will be king\u2019\u201d (<\/span>I Kings 1:5<\/span><\/a>). In the 19<\/span>th<\/span> century, Chasidic Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Dinov, in his Torah commentary,<\/span> Agra DeKala<\/span><\/a>, added that the royal crown would fit even a newborn baby suited to be king!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On May 6, the new King of England, will be crowned with the legendary\u00a0 <\/span>St. Edward's Crown<\/span><\/a>, which was originally made for Charles II in 1661 and recently<\/span> refitted<\/span><\/a> for the coming coronation of King Charles III. The current version of this crown is 12 inches tall, made of 22 carat gold, encrusted with 444 precious and semi-precious stones and weighs about five pounds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"Long Live the King!\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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At about the same time that Jehu was eliminating Baal worship from the northern kingdom of Samaria, events were unfolding in the southern kingdom of Judah that were leading to the identical denouement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After the death of Ahaziah, King of Judah, at the hands of Jehu (2 Kings 9:27), Queen Mother Ataliah seized the opportunity to consolidate her own hold on the kingdom by killing off all the members of the royal family (1). Unbeknownst to her, Joash, the infant son of Ahaziah, was rescued and spent six years hidden away in the Temple under the auspices of Jehoiadah, the High Priest (2-3), who eventually conspired with the loyal officers of Ahaziah to restore Joash to the throne (4 ff.). Ataliah herself was executed, but not before she was able to cry out \u201ctreason, treason\u201d (14), whose Hebrew phrasing (<\/span>kesher kesher<\/span><\/em>) links her with Jezebel\u2019s castigation of Jehu as a \u201cZimri\u201d whose rebellion against Baasha is formally recorded as \u201cthe treason that he perpetrated\u201d (<\/span>kishro asher kashar<\/span><\/em>; 1 Kings 16:20; see our comments there<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jehoaidah renewed the covenant between God, the king, and the nation (17) and the people responded by shattering the altars of Baal, smashing its statues, and slaying Matan the (high?) priest of Baal. This cleared the way for the restoration of Joash to the throne (19) and \u201cAll the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet\u201d (20). Joash would continue to serve God under the tutelage of Jehoiadah (12:3), with the usual caveat (see our note to 1 Kings 3) of <\/span>\u201c<\/span>The shrines [<\/span>bamot<\/span><\/i>], however, were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and offer at the shrines\u201d (12:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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11:1 - \u201cAnd Athaliah, Ahaziah\u2019s mother, saw that her son was dead, and she arose and destroyed all the royal seed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This shocking act, which makes Athaliah far more horrendous than Medea, is not explained. One should keep in mind that Athaliah appears to be the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and she takes after her mother in viciousness. Seeing that her son Ahaziah has been killed, she ruthlessly grasps an opportunity for herself by murdering her sons and grandsons so that she can seize the throne without rivals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this chapter we meet the strong and powerful Athaliah. She rules over Judah for more than six years and is the only woman to ever do so in that official capacity. She claims this position as the mother of the last slain monarch, Ahaziah, but arrives at this place of power through her own cunning and murderous actions. Immediately upon the death of her son, King Ahaziah, she wipes out all remaining descendants who might lay claim to the throne. She acts much like her predecessors and clears her own path to power, with one major difference: She is a woman. In ancient Israel no woman has held the throne.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is, however, another twist in the story. One heir to the throne, a baby boy named Joash, survives her purge. Jehosheba, the sister of the preceding (now deceased) King Ahaziah, along with her husband, the priest Jehoiada, hatch a plan to hide Joash away and ultimately, on his seventh birthday, present him to the people and anoint him as King. As they do so, Athaliah cries out \u201ctreason\u201d, which it is, but to no avail. The people and the priests are behind the newly crowned King Joash and she is powerless to stop them. The story of Athaliah ends with her murder in her own palace.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What are we to make of this episode? Picture the scene: a queen who has been ruling for 6 years being replaced with a seven year old boy. Certainly, this plan was not his. Joash is merely a pawn in the power schemes of others. What was driving the people to do this? Why so much urgency to dethrone Athaliah? Could they not have just waited a few more years until the natural death of Athaliah or at least until the boy had matured into a man and might fulfill this role with some competence?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis try to answer these open questions. They try to fill in these blank spaces by imputing to her a desire to destroy the Davidic dynasty and they cast her as an adulteress \u2013 in other words, a bad woman who needed to be removed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet, all such indications are absent from the text of Kings itself. In fact, Athaliah\u2019s actions mimic those of a long line of monarchs, who wipe out challengers to their power and destroy the remaining lineage of Ahab, and other evil Kings. This leaves us wondering: Was she any worse than the many previous evil Kings? Could it be that her fatal flaw, which necessitated her replacement by a seven-year old boy, was not anything that she herself did, but simply her status as a woman, acting in a way and playing a role that until then only men had inhabited?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is the story of the Athaliah a relic of the past or are there ways that we see her story still alive today?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Athaliah's position as queen is inherently illegitimate, as the throne of Judah can be occupied by the line of King David only (see II Kings 8:19). This violation is expressed in the narrator's omission of a formulaic regnal summary; the daughter of Jezebel may administrate the kingdom, but her name will never be recorded in the roster of Judahite kings. Athaliah's behavior bears witness to the corrupting influences of the northern kingdom, such as the execution of the deposed royal line and the adoption of Baal worship \u2014 norms that have now seeped into the political culture of Judah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Unlike Jehu's revolution in Israel, Athaliah's motive in massacring her own family is inexplicit. Why did she do it? Is it because if her son cannot rule, no other person from the Davidic line may rule either? Is it because, as sole remaining member of the house of Ahab, she seeks to preserve her dynastic legacy in Judah?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The killing of her children suggests an absolute, tyrannical desire to govern, sweeping away even the primal instinct of motherhood: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz suggests an almost pathological hunger for power: \u201cAthaliah, like Jezebel, was not just a strong personality but a woman who yearned to rule.... Her passion was simply for power itself, and this drive of hers was so strong that it caused her to carry out a series of extreme acts....She did not even make any serious political or religious changes within the country. She became simply a manifestation of this one drive: to rule.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

She is the sole female biblical figure to be awarded the moniker: \"the Wicked\" - hamirshaat<\/em> (II Chr. 24:7). Some commentators assign Athaliah less pathological motives. Yehuda Kiel dwells upon her political motivations:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, learned that her son was dead\" \u2014 slain by Jehu. She was concerned that Jehu would co-opt and annex the kingdom of Judah to his kingdom, and would execute her since she was from the house of Ahab.... Thus she decided on her course of action. The construction of the temple of Baal in Jerusalem had national-economic significance beyond its religious import; the builders sought to establish the historic ties of the kings of Israel with the kings of Tyre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But we do not need to select one reading over the other. As with today's realpolitik, even the most despotic and murderous leaders may combine malicious ambition with a sophisticated political strategy; both approaches may be true at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Alex Israel, II Kings: In a Whirlwind<\/em>, Maggid Books, 2019, A Murderous Queen\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":63310,"alt":"","title":"Alex Israel - 2_kings_cover","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","width":1711,"height":1821,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-282x300.jpg","medium-width":282,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-768x817.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":817,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-962x1024.jpg","large-width":962,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","1536x1536-width":1443,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","2048x2048-width":1711,"2048x2048-height":1821,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-1128x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1128,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-395x420.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Excerpts from: II Kings - In A Whirlwind","tile_main_caption":"The Wicked Queen","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Trying to understand Athaliah\u2019s murderous behavior","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":63310,"alt":"","title":"Alex Israel - 2_kings_cover","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","width":1711,"height":1821,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-282x300.jpg","medium-width":282,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-768x817.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":817,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-962x1024.jpg","large-width":962,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","1536x1536-width":1443,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","2048x2048-width":1711,"2048x2048-height":1821,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-1128x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1128,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-395x420.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Kings","chapter":"11","chapter_main_number":"320","date":"20261119","wall_id":"320"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"460","name":"Evil","old_id":"860"},{"term_id":"908","name":"Queen","old_id":"1308"}]},{"order":10,"id":"63781","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Sefaria Source Sheets - 2 Kings 11 ","post_title":"Sefaria Source Sheets - 2 Kings 11","slug":"sefaria-source-sheets-2-kings-11","old_id":"63781","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":42228,"post_title":"Sefaria","slug":"sefaria","old_id":"42228","first_name":"","last_name":"Sefaria","description":"Sefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. 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\u201cJerusalem: Spiritual or Holy?\u201d<\/a> by Nachliel haCohen Selavan: Sources on the holy city.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMusic in the Hebrew Bible\u201d<\/a> by Jamie Fisher: Explore music in Tanakh.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - 2 Kings 11","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Kings","chapter":"11","chapter_main_number":"320","date":"20261119","wall_id":"320"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"63729","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- 2 Kings 11 ","post_title":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- 2 Kings 11","slug":"a-lesson-on-the-daily-chapter-2-kings-11","old_id":"63729","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":40936,"post_title":"David Silber","slug":"david-silber-2","old_id":"40936","first_name":"David ","last_name":"Silber ","description":"Rabbi David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. 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  1. All in the family.<\/em> Athaliah, the queen, is of course from the house of Ahab, king of Israel. Like the rest of the house of Ahab, she too has given her blessing to Baal worship.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Women<\/em>. Three of the central characters in the chapter are women. Athaliah - the murderous queen, Jehosheba, the daughter and the sister who saves the heir apparent, and the wetnurse.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The anatomy of a coronation.<\/em> Crowning Joash was done in the House of God, and while that was atypical, it seems that the rest of the ceremony was according to protocol. Verses 12 and 14 mention the essential components: crown, insignia, anointing, clapping, \u201clong live the king!,\u201d a stage and trumpets.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The people of the land\u2026<\/em> Who is this \u201cpeople of the land\u201d (<\/span>am ha\u2019aretz<\/span><\/i>) - the public masses? The nobility? Loyalists of the kingdom of Judah? Commentators and scholars suggest a range of answers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The child ruler<\/em>. Joash, who was saved from the massacre as a baby, was only seven years old when he was crowned king, so that actually it was Jehoiada the priest who remained the responsible adult, and set the religious tone of the regime. How will Joash turn out as an adult? Will he continue the ways of his mentor here, or will he return to those of his ancestors? 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