he took him with her into a secret
bed-chamber, and shut him up there, and she and her husband Jehoiada
brought him up privately in the temple six years, during which time
Athaliah reigned over Jerusalem and the two tribes.

2. Now, on the Seventh year, Jehoiada communicated the matter to certain
of the captains of hundreds, five in number, and persuaded them to be
assisting to what attempts he was making against Athaliah, and to join
with him in asserting the kingdom to the child. He also received such
oaths from them as are proper to secure those that assist one another
from the fear of discovery; and he was then of good hope that they
should depose Athaliah. Now those men whom Jehoiada the priest had taken
to be his partners went into all the country, and gathered together the
priests and the Levites, and the heads of the tribes out of it, and came
and brought them to Jerusalem to the high priest. So he demanded the
security of an oath of them, to keep private whatsoever he should
discover to them, which required both their silence and their
assistance. So when they had taken the oath, and had thereby made it
safe for him to speak, he produced the child that he had brought up of
the family of David, and said to them, "This is your king, of that house
which you know God hath foretold should reign over you for all time to
come. I exhort you therefore that one-third part of you guard him in
the temple, and that a fourth part keep watch at all the gates of the
temple, and that the next part of you keep guard at the gate which opens
and leads to the king's palace, and let the rest of the multitude be
unarmed in the temple, and let no armed person go into the temple, but
the priest only." He also gave them this order besides, "That a part of
the priests and the Levites should be about the king himself, and be a
guard to him, with their drawn swords, and to kill that man immediately,
whoever he be, that should be so bold as to enter armed into the temple;
and bid them be afraid of nobody, but persevere in guarding the king."
So these men obeyed what the high priest advised them to, and declared
the reality of their resolution by their actions. Jehoiada also opened
that armory which David had made in the temple, and distributed to the
captains of hundreds, as also to the priests and Levites, all the spears
and quivers, and what kind of weapons soever it contained, and set them
armed in a circle round about the temple, so as t