1. In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2. And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4. And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,