1. Yoash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned arba'im shanah in Yerushalayim. Shem immo also was Tzivyah of Beer Sheva.
2. And Yoash did that which was yashar in the eyes of Hashem kol yemei Yehoyada HaKohen.
3. And Yehoyada took for him nashim shtayim; and he fathered banim and banot.
4. And it came to pass after this, that Yoash was minded to renovate the Bais Hashem.
5. And he called together the Kohanim and the Levi'im, and said to them, Go out unto the towns of Yehudah, and collect from Kol Yisroel kesef to repair the Bais Eloheichem annually, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levi'im hastened it not.
6. And HaMelech called for Yehoyada HaRosh, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levi'im to bring in from Yehudah and from Yerushalayim the mas'at (the tax of) Moshe Eved Hashem and the Kahal L'Yisroel L'Ohel HaEdut?
7. For the sons of that wicked woman Atalyah had broken in the Beis HaElohim; all the Kadshei Beis Hashem did they bestow upon Ba'alim.
8. And at the commandment of HaMelech they made aron echad and set it outside at the Sha'ar Beis Hashem.