Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off. He said to Ahaziah, “It’s a trap, Ahaziah!”

Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

Later King Jehoshaphat of Judah made an alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel, who did evil.

Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, “Go, ask Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.