Shimeath

Shimeath is named twice in the UPDV, both times as the parent of one of the two royal servants who assassinated King Joash of Judah. The Chronicler adds the further note that she was an Ammonitess.

Mother of an Assassin of King Joash

The Kings record fixes the line of descent: "For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his slaves, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead" (2 Kgs 12:21). Shimeath stands here only as Jozacar's parent, paired with Shomer the parent of the other assassin. The two are called Joash's "slaves" — household servants who turned on the king.

The Chronicles parallel renames Jozacar as Zabad and identifies the foreign maternal lines of both conspirators: "And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess" (2 Chr 24:26). The descriptor "the Ammonitess" makes Shimeath an Ammonite woman and the mother of one of the assassins, paired with Shimrith the Moabitess as mother of the other.