1. JOASH WAS seven years old when he began his forty-year reign in Jerusalem. His mother was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. And Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest [his uncle].
3. And Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
4. After this, Joash decided to repair the Lord's house.
5. He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. But the Levites did not hasten it.