“And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.” — 2 Kings 11: 4

KEEP GROWING

It is instructive to observe that Joash was a baby at the time when Athaliah killed the entire seed royal. He was hid in the temple for six years. It was in the seventh year that he was brought forth to the people and made king. Joash was too young to wear the crown of King as a baby...