Jehosheba
A princess of Judah, daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada. When Athaliah seized the throne and set about destroying the whole royal family, Jehosheba took her infant nephew Joash from among the king's sons about to be murdered and hid him with his nurse in a bedchamber, then in the house of the Lord for six years. The line of David survived because of her.
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2 Kings2 ChroniclesBut Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2 Kings 11:2 — Hides the child Joash
But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.
2 Chronicles 22:11
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
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