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.
6. So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy fixed by Moses the servant of the Lord on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?"
7. For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and even used the holy things of the house of the Lord for the Baals.
8. So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside by the gate of the house of the Lord.
9. They made a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord the levy fixed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.