2 Kings 11:1-3

GOD’S WORD Translation

The Priest Jehoiada Opposes Queen Athaliah^(A)

11 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.