Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram’s daughter and Ahaziah’s 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.
In the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards. He made them come to him in the Lord’s temple, where he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son
He went to his father’s house in Ophrah and killed his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on top of a large stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid.