The last Davidic king’s mother is mentioned twice using the actual term gebirah[i] (queen mother)…
Jehoiachin…“and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan.” II Kings 24:8
She rode out with her son to be taken into captivity in Babylon. She was mentioned before his “princes.”
Then when tiny Judah was defeated in their battle against Nebuchadnezzar…And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. II King 24:12
My Search for the Political Mary 
