1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2. And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on 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, the money of every one that passes the account, the money at which every man is valued, and all the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,