Six years later this child was proclaimed king in the Temple courts by Jehoiada, the high priest.
The discreet foster-mother refers the lad to her husband, Jehoiada, now approaching.
Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, one of the bravest of David's soldiers, was their commander.
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
Even the high priest, Jehoiada, who was connected with the royal house, kept silence.
