Athaliah

Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.

Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.

But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took Joas, the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from the face of Athalia; so that he was not slain.

And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.

And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in to the people into the temple of the Lord,

She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.

And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house.

Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri.

For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.

But Josabeth the king's daughter took Joas the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain. And she hid him with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth that hid him, was daughter of king Joram, wife of Joiada the high priest, and sister of Ochozias, and therefore Athalia did not kill him.

And he was with them hid in the house of God six years, during which Athalia reigned over the land.

Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the Lord.

And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.

And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword.

For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.