1. Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. Jehoash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4. Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the Lord’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the Lord’s house,
5. let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6. But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.