Queen Jehoaddin, from Jerusalem, was the wife of King Joash (r. 835-796 BC), and mother of King Amaziah of Judah (r. 796-767 BC).
Jerusalem was part of the region inhabited by the Canaanites around 3000 BC.
When Athaliah, learned that her son, Ahaziah and her brother King Joram of Israel, were dead (killed by Jehu), she began to destroy the rest of the royal family.
Ahaziah’s sister, Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram of Judah, took the future King Jehoash (Joash), and stole him away from among the rest of the king’s children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom, and they hid him from Athaliah, so the child was not murdered.
Joash remained hidden in the Temple of the Lord for six years while Queen Athaliah ruled Judah (r. 841-835 BC), until he could be made king.
In the seventh year of Queen Athaliah’s reign, Jehoiada the priest summoned the commanders, the Carite mercenaries, and the palace guards to come to the Temple of the Lord. He made a solemn pact with them and made them swear an oath of loyalty there in the Lord’s Temple; then he showed them the king’s son, Joash.
When Athaliah heard the noise made by the palace guards and the people, she hurried to the Lord’s Temple to see what was happening. When she arrived, she saw the newly crowned king standing in his place of authority by the pillar, as was the custom at times of coronation. The commanders and trumpeters were surrounding him, and people from all over the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. When Athaliah saw all this, she tore her clothes in despair and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”
Then Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders who were in charge of the troops, “Take her to the soldiers in front of the Temple, and kill anyone who tries to rescue her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be killed in the Temple of the Lord.” So they seized her and led her out to the gate where horses enter the palace grounds, and she was killed there.
Queen Jehoaddin’s husband, King Joash, began to rule over Judah in the seventh year of King Jehu’s reign in Israel (r. 841-814 BC). He reigned in Jerusalem forty years.
King Joash’s officers plotted against him and assassinated him at Beth-millo on the road to Silla. The assassins were Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer—both trusted advisers.
Her son, King Amaziah (r. 796-767 BC), began to rule over Judah in the second year of the reign of King Jehoash of Israel. When Amaziah was well established as king, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father.
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