11 But Jehoshabeath,¹ the daughter of the king, took ⁱJoash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of ^jJehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him² from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.

Joash Made King

1 ^kBut in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.