2 Kings 11:1-8

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Athaliah Reigns as Queen of Judah^(A)

11 As soon as Ahaziah’s mother Athaliah learned that her son had died, she seized the throne^[a] and executed the entire royal bloodline.^{[b] 2} But King Joram’s daughter Jehosheba, who was Ahaziah’s sister, rescued^[c] Ahaziah’s son Joash from the group of the king’s sons who were being executed and hid him and his nurse in her bedroom, concealing him from Athaliah so he was not put to death. ³ So Joash remained hidden with her in the Lord’s Temple for six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

⁴ But during the seventh year of her reign,^[d] Jehoiada went out and called together the rulers of hundreds, the captains, and the guards, and assembled them together inside the Lord’s Temple. He made a covenant with them, making them take an oath in the Lord’s Temple, and then he revealed the king’s son to them. ⁵ He ordered them: