1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
4. Then Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the Lord, in current money, both the money of each man's assessment and all the money which any man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,