Joash would remain in hiding for the next six years in the home of Jehoiada and Jehosheba. Athaliah was a remarkable woman, both for her wickedness and for her ability.

Joash did what was righteous in G-d’s eyes all the years that his teacher and savior Jehoiada was alive “in accordance with what Jehoiada taught him” (II Kgs. 12:3).

“After six years Jehoiada anoints Joash as Judah’s king, Athaliah is slain in the royal palace and the general populace removes the altars to Baal in Jerusalem that had been introduced by ...