2 Chronicles 22:12
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New International Version (©2011)
He remained hidden with them at the temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Joash remained hidden in the Temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He was hidden with them in the house of God six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
While Athaliah ruled over the land, he was hiding with them in God's temple six years.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Joash remained with them for six years, hidden in God's Temple while Athaliah reigned over the land.

NET Bible (©2006)
He remained in hiding in God's temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joash was with the priests. He was hidden in God's temple for six years while Athaliah ruled the country.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he was hid with them in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

American King James Version
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

American Standard Version
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

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

Darby Bible Translation
and he was with them hid in the house of God six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.

English Revised Version
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

World English Bible
He was with them hidden in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

Young's Literal Translation
And he is with them in the house of God hiding himself six years, and Athaliah is reigning over the land.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-12 The reign of Ahaziah, Athaliah destroys the royal family. - The counsel of the ungodly ruins many young persons when they are setting out in the world. Ahaziah gave himself up to be led by evil men. Those who advise us to do wickedly, counsel us to our destruction; while they pretend to be friends, they are our worst enemies. See and dread the mischief of bad company. If not the infection, yet let the destruction be feared, Re 18:4. We have here, a wicked woman endeavouring to destroy the house of David, and a good woman preserving it. No word of God shall fall to the ground. The whole truth of the prophecies that the Messiah was to come from David, and thereby the salvation of the world, appeared to be now hung upon the brittle thread of the life of a single infant, to destroy whom was the interest of the reigning power. But God had purposed, and vain were the efforts of earth and hell.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - With them hid in the house of God six years. During this time evidently Athaliah reigned. There were in the "house of God" chambers sacred to the use of either priests or temple officials (1 Kings 6:5-10).

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. he was with them hid in the house of God—Certain persons connected with the priesthood had a right to occupy the buildings in the outer wall, and all within the outer wall was often called the temple. Jehoiada and his family resided in one of these apartments.

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Athaliah Queen in Judah
10But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah. 11But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. 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 slew him not. 12And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

2 Chronicles 22:11 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes who were about to be murdered and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah's sister, she hid the child from Athaliah so she could not kill him.
2 Chronicles 23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada showed his strength. He made a covenant with the commanders of units of a hundred: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.