1. In the seventh year of Jehu Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
2. And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada the priest taught him.
3. But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4. And Joas said to the priests: All the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart they bring into the temple of the Lord:
5. Let the priests take it according to their order, and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.