Shimrith

Shimrith is named once in the UPDV, in the Chronicler's account of the conspiracy against King Joash of Judah. She is identified as a Moabite woman and as the mother of Jehozabad, one of the two royal servants who struck the king down. The parallel notice in Kings names her as Shomer.

A Moabite Mother of an Assassin of Joash

The Chronicler lists the two conspirators with their maternal descent: "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). Shimrith stands as Jehozabad's parent — a Moabitess paired with Shimeath the Ammonitess, the two foreign mothers framing the two men who killed Joash.

The Kings parallel records the same act under a variant name: "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). The descent of Jehozabad is given as "the son of Shomer" — Shomer and Shimrith naming the same parent in the two parallel records of the assassination.