Word: athaliah
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Biblical Predecessors. If she accepts, the Russian-born onetime Milwaukee schoolteacher will be the third woman to rule Israel and the territory that was ancient Judah (after two Biblical predecessors, Jezebel's daughter Athaliah and Queen Alexandra). A longtime aide to Premier David Ben-Gurion, who once called her "the only man in my Cabinet" because she firmly backed his hard-lining policies toward the Arabs, she served as Labor Minister, and later as Foreign Minister for ten years. In 1966, she retired from the government, but until last summer remained Secretary General of the Israel Labor Party...
...Jehoram, king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, and seventh king of the line of David, married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands...
...religious aspect of the story. Dean Hodges called attention to the fact that the monks of the Dark Ages were the first to produce, as a means of conveying religious truth, the sacred plays of which "Athalie" was a modern revival, and pointed out the striking ethical teachings of Athaliah's usurpation and downfall...
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