2 Kings 11 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family. ² But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. ³ He remained with her in the temple of the LORD, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land. ⁴ In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD. He made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son. ⁵ He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing which you must do: one third of you who go off duty on the Sabbath, the keepers of the guard in the house of the king, ⁶ with a third of you at the Sur gate, and a third at the gate behind the guards. Keep watch over the palace and defend it. ⁷ "The two groups that go off duty on the Sabbath are to stand guard at the Temple to protect the king. ⁸ You must surround the king all about, each with his weapon in his hand; whoever comes to the ranks must be killed. Be with the king wherever he goes." ⁹ So the commanders of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and each took his men who went off duty on the Sabbath and those who came on duty on the Sabbath, and they came to Jehoiada the priest. ¹⁰ He gave the officers the spears and shields that had belonged to King David and had been kept in the Temple. ¹¹ And the guard stood every man with his weapon in his hand round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left along by the altar and the temple. ¹² Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!” ¹³ When Athaliah heard the sound of the runners of the people, she came to the people at the temple of the LORD. ¹⁴ She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all of the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing on the trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and she called, "Treason, treason!" ¹⁵ And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks and kill with the sword the man who follows her. For the priest said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD. ¹⁶ And they made way for her, and she went by the way by which the horses entered the king`s house, and there was she put to death. ¹⁷ Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; also between the king and the people. ¹⁸ The people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and the idols, and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. Jehoiada put guards on duty at the Temple, ¹⁹ He took the commanders of the hundreds and the Carites and the runners and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the temple of the LORD. And they marched by the way of the runner's gate to the palace of the king, and he sat on the throne of the kings. ²⁰ And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house. ²¹ Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.