1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years, and the name of his mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.
2. Jehoash did right in the eyes of Yahweh all of his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Only the high places were not removed; the people were still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places.
4. Jehoash said to the priests, “All of the money for the sacred things that is brought to the temple of Yahweh, the money taxed at its proper value for each person and all of the money which comes upon the heart of a man to bring to the temple of Yahweh,