10. Now when Athaliah the mother of AHAZIAH saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.

11. But Jehoshabeath, the king's daughter, took Joash the son of AHAZIAH, and stealthily rescued him from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of AHAZIAH), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him.

12. He was with them hidden in God's house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.