1. Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2. Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3. Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4. After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s house.
5. He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.