1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
4. Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,