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Who was Athaliah's father?
Athaliah's identification as Omri's daughter is compared with a royal wife's identification as Ahab's daughter. The second group does not name Athaliah within the supplied verses.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
The alternative paternal notice does not name Athaliah and requires both an inferred identity and an immediate-parent meaning of daughter.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Athaliah is named as Omri's daughter
Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:26
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:2 Kings 8
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
2 Chronicles 22:2
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:2 Chronicles 22