1. When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family.
2. But Jehosheba, daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, Ahaziah’s son, and spirited him away, along with his nurse, from the bedroom where the princes were about to be slain. He was concealed from Athaliah, and so he did not die.
3. For six years he remained hidden with her in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah ruled as queen over the land.