Jehosheba,(A) who was King Jehoram’s daughter and Ahaziah’s(B) sister, secretly rescued Joash son of Ahaziah from among the king’s sons who were being killed and put him and the one who nursed him in a bedroom. So he was hidden from Athaliah and was not killed.

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But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram[a] and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash(A) son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 11:2 Hebrew Joram, a variant of Jehoram

Judah’s King Joash

21 Joash[a](A) was seven years old when he became king.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:21 = The Lord Has Bestowed

21 Joash[a] was seven years old when he began to reign.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 11:21 Hebrew Jehoash, a variant of Joash
  2. 2 Kings 11:21 In Hebrew texts this verse (11:21) is numbered 12:1.

Judah’s King Joash

24 Joash(A) was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beer-sheba.

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Joash Repairs the Temple(A)(B)

24 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

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