2 Kings 11:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 he remained with her for six years, hidden in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
Jehoiada Anoints the Child Joash
4 But in the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the captains of the Carites and of the guards and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord; then he showed them the king’s son. 5 He commanded them, ‘This is what you are to do: one-third of you, those who go off duty on the sabbath and guard the king’s house
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