Athaliah
Queen Athaliah is the only woman in the Hebrew Bible reported as having reigned as a monarch within Israel/Judah. She is the daughter of either Omri, king of Israel (2 Kgs 8:26; 2 Chr 22:2), or, more probably, of his son King Ahab (2 Kgs 8:18; 2 Chr 21:6;), who ruled from 873 to 852 BC. There is no evidence that she was the daughter of Ahab’s chief wife, Jezebel. Athaliah married Jehoram of Judah (2 Kgs 8:18; 2 Chr 21:6). After Jehoram’s death, their son Ahaziah reigned for one year, and “his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly” (2 Chr 22:3).
After Ahaziah was killed in a dynastic struggle (2 Kings 9), Athaliah sets out to kill the rest of the royal dynasty and seized the throne of Judah in Jerusalem (2 Kings 9; 2 Chr 22:10–23:21). She managed to remain sole monarch for six years. In the seventh year a revolution led by Jehoiada the priest put the seven-year-old Joash on the throne. He was Ahaziah’s child who had been rescued by his paternal aunt Jehosheba six years earlier. Hearing the singing and trumpeting of the festivities surrounding the boy's crowning, Atheliah dashed in, yelling, “Treason, treason.” She was dragged from the Temple and murdered.(2 Kgs 11:14; 2 Chr 23:13)