He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
- BSB And Joash remained hidden with them in the house of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
- NKJV And he was hidden with them in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
- NASB He kept himself hidden with them in the house of God for six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
- NLT Joash remained hidden in the Temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.
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Cross-references · 6
- Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
- Ps 12:8The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
- Ps 73:14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
- Ps 73:18–19Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
- Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
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