2 Kings 11:1-3

Living Bible

11 When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she killed all of his children, ^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.