Jehosheba saved Israel from the evil queen, Athaliah, by hiding the future king for six years.
2 Kings 11.1. And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she got up and destroyed all the royal seed. 2. But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Jehoram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain and they hid him from Athaliah, him and his nurse in the bedroom, so that he was not slain. 3. And he was hidden with her in the House of the LORD* for six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land. 4. And the seventh year Jehoida sent and brought the leaders over hundreds and the guards and the runners and brought them to him in the House of the LORD* and cut a covenant with them and took an oath of them in the House of the LORD*, and showed them the king’s son (Joash).
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