Yaba

She is an archeological discovery. Her identity and relationships are the subject for various theories.

“I still consider a ‘Canaanite’ origin of Yaba and Atalya at least possible. Whether the two queens were really associated with the royal house of Judah is uncertain, and an Israelite or Phoenician origin should be considered as well.” ([[https://books.google.com/books?id=bF_bAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&d... Frahm, 188]).

• Eckhart Frahm, “Family Matters: Psychohistorical Reflections on Sennacherib and His Times”' in Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History and Historiography, eds. Isaac Kalimi & Seth Richardson (2014), p. 188.
• Waiting for Josiah: The Judges (by Philippe Guillaume), page 78.

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13. JOTHAM (YOTEM), reigned 740-735, regent from 750BC. He reigned 16 years (2 Ki 15:33), which includes the years he was prince-regent during his father’s retirement (2 Ki 15:5; 2 Chr 26:1). He was regent for 11 years (2 Ki 15:32).
He married Ahia, the Hebrew princess, traditionally the daughter of Azrikam, the Benjaminite sheikh of King Saul’s House (1 Chr 9:44), in a strategic move as part of a feasible plan to re-unite the Hebrew tribes. issue:

(a) Ahaz, the crown-prince [who was named after his mother's relatives, which name was common in the Saulite family-clan]; and

(b) Yaba, a daughter, who was given in marriage to Tiglath-pileser, III, King of Assyria 745-727BC, from whom descends a "DFA" descent-line