2 Kings 11:2

Good News Translation

Only Ahaziah's son Joash escaped. He was about to be killed with the others, but was rescued by his aunt Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram's daughter and Ahaziah's half sister. She took him and his nurse into a bedroom in the Temple and hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:17

except Hadad and some of his father's Edomite servants, who escaped to Egypt. (At that time Hadad was just a child.)

1 Kings 6:10

The three-storied annex, each story 7½ feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple, and was joined to them by cedar beams.

1 Kings 6:8

The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple, with stairs leading up to the second and third stories.

2 Kings 11:21

Joash became king of Judah at the age of seven.

2 Kings 11:3

For six years Jehosheba took care of the boy and kept him hidden in the Temple, while Athaliah ruled as queen.

2 Kings 12:1

In the seventh year of the reign of King Jehu of Israel, Joash became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for forty years. His mother was Zibiah from the city of Beersheba.

2 Kings 8:16

In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab as king of Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah

2 Kings 8:19

but the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, because he had promised his servant David that his descendants would always continue to rule.

1 Chronicles 3:11

Jehoram, Ahaziah, Joash,

2 Chronicles 22:11

Ahaziah had a half sister, Jehosheba, who was married to a priest named Jehoiada. She secretly rescued one of Ahaziah's sons, Joash, took him away from the other princes who were about to be murdered and hid him and a nurse in a bedroom at the Temple. By keeping him hidden, she saved him from death at the hands of Athaliah.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will be so full of frogs that they will leave it and go into your palace, your bedroom, your bed, the houses of your officials and your people, and even into your ovens and baking pans.

Proverbs 21:30

Human wisdom, brilliance, insight—they are of no help if the Lord is against you.

Isaiah 37:35

I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.’”

Jeremiah 33:17

I, the Lord, promise that there will always be a descendant of David to be king of Israel

Jeremiah 33:21

In the same way I have made a covenant with my servant David that he would always have a descendant to be king, and I have made a covenant with the priests from the tribe of Levi that they would always serve me; and those covenants can never be broken.

Jeremiah 33:26

And just as surely as I have done this, so I will maintain my covenant with Jacob's descendants and with my servant David. I will choose one of David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will be merciful to my people and make them prosperous again.”

Jeremiah 35:2

“Go to the members of the Rechabite clan and talk to them. Then bring them into one of the rooms in the Temple and offer them some wine.”

Jeremiah 36:26

Then he ordered Prince Jerahmeel, together with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to arrest me and my secretary Baruch. But the Lord had hidden us.

Ezekiel 40:45

The man told me that the room which faced south was for the priests who served in the Temple,

Judges 9:5

He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and there on top of a single stone he killed his seventy brothers, Gideon's sons. But Jotham, Gideon's youngest son, hid and was not killed.