10 When Ahazyah’s mother Atalyah found out that her son had died, she took action and destroyed all the his family members who could become king of Yehudah. 11 However, a princess named Yehoshaveat took Ahazyah’s son Yoash, and she sneaked him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be killed, and she hid him and his nurse in a bedroom. Yehoshaveat was the daughter of the late King Yehoram, the wife of Yehoyada the priest (she was Ahazyah’s sister), and she hid him from Atalyah so she couldn’t kill him. 12 He stayed in hiding with them in the temple for six years while Atalyah ruled over Yehudah.

11 When Ahazyah’s mother Atalyah saw that her son had been killed, she went and had all of his descendants executed so that none of them could claim the throne. 2 However, King Yehoram’s daughter Yehosheva took Yoash, the son of her sister Ahazyah, and hid him in the bedroom along with his wet-nurse. Although he was on the list of the king’s sons to be executed, they hid him from Atalyah, and so he wasn’t killed. 3 Then he was able to stay hidden with her in the temple for the six years while Atalyah ruled Yehudah.