1. Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah from Beersheba.
2. Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3. Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4. Now it came about after this that Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.
5. He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to repair the house of your God annually, and you shall do the matter quickly." But the Levites did not act quickly.