2 Kings 11:3-5

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

³ Joash was with his nurse hidden in the house of the Lord for six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.

⁴ In the seventh year Jehoiada [the priest, Jehosheba’s husband] sent for the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guards or runners and brought them to him to the house of the Lord and made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of the Lord and showed them the king’s [hidden] son.

⁵ And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing you shall do: a third of you who come in on the Sabbath shall keep watch of the king’s house,