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. And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada, the priest.
3. And Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he begat sons and daughters.
4. And it came to pass after this that Joash desired to repair the house of the Lord.