2 Kings 11 · a question people ask
Was Jehosheba married to Jehoiada the priest?
2 Kings doesn't say. It calls her "Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah" (11:2), and says Joash "was with her hidden in the LORD’s house six years" (11:3). Jehoiada is first named in 11:4, and the chapter doesn't say how the two were related. 2 Chronicles tells the same events and names her "Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest" (2 Chronicles 22:11), and says Joash "was with them hidden in God’s house six years" (2 Chronicles 22:12). The two books spell her name differently. The family tree here follows 2 Kings 11 and draws no line between Jehosheba and Jehoiada.
The verses
“Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah. But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him. He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.”