³ He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

⁴ But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the commanders of the hundreds of the Carites and the runners, and he brought them to himself to the temple of Yahweh. Then he made^[a] a covenant with them and made them swear in the house of Yahweh and showed them the son of the king. ⁵ He commanded them, saying, “This is the thing which you must do: one third of you who go off duty on the Sabbath,^[b] the keepers of the guard in the house of the king,