2 Chronicles 22:10-12 - When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family of the house of Judah. But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes who were about to be murdered and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah's sister, she hid the child from Athaliah so she could not kill him. He remained hidden with them at the temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
I wonder if Athaliah knew she had missed killing one of the royal family. Joash was only a year old at the time. I wonder if Jehoiada and Jehosheba just did so good of a job hiding him that Athaliah gave up looking and assumed he was dead.
How do you hide a child for 6 years? They did it mainly in the temple which perhaps was a place that Athaliah didn't frequent, but still that's a long time to keep a young boy hidden. I wonder if they tried to pass him off as someone else. Their own son? A relative from out of town? A neighborhood kid?
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