1. When Ahaziah’s mother, Athaliah, saw that her son was dead, she began to destroy the entire royal family.
2. But Jehosheba, daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash. She saved him from being killed with the king’s other sons, and in a bedroom she hid him and his nurse from Athaliah. So Joash wasn’t killed
3. but was hidden with her in the Lord’s temple for six years while Athaliah ruled the country.
4. In the seventh year of Athaliah’s reign, Jehoiada sent for the company commanders of the Carites and the guards and had them come to him in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement with them, put them under oath in the Lord’s temple, and showed them the king’s son.