2 Kings 11:3-5

Living Bible

^2-3 except for his year-old son^[a] Joash. Joash was rescued by his Aunt Jehosheba, who was a sister of King Ahaziah (for she was a daughter of King Jehoram, Ahaziah’s father). She stole him away from among the rest of the king’s children who were waiting to be slain and hid him and his nurse in a storeroom of the Temple. They lived there for six years while Athaliah reigned as queen.

⁴ In the seventh year of Queen Athaliah’s reign, Jehoiada the priest^[b] summoned the officers of the palace guard and the queen’s bodyguard. He met them in the Temple, swore them to secrecy, and showed them the king’s son.

⁵ Then he gave them their instructions: “A third of those who are on duty on the Sabbath are to guard the palace.