1. A shekara ta bakwai ta sarautar Yehu, Yowash ya ci sarautar. Ya yi shekara arba'in yana sarauta a Urushalima. Sunan tsohuwarsa Zibiya ta Biyer-sheba.
2. Yowash kuwa ya yi abin da yake daidai ga Ubangiji dukan kwanakinsa, domin Yehoyaka, firist, ya koya masa.
3. Duk da haka ba a kawar da wuraren yin tsafi a tuddai ba, mutane suka ci gaba da miƙa hadayu da ƙona turare a kan tuddan.
4. Yowash ya ce wa firistoci, “Dukan kuɗin tsarkakan abubuwa da ake kawowa a Haikalin ubangiji, da kuɗin da aka tsara wa kowane mutum, da kuɗin da aka bayar da yardar rai, da ake kawowa a Haikali,
5. sai ku karɓa daga junanku, don a gyara duk inda ake bukatar gyara a Haikalin.”
6. Amma har a shekara ta ashirin da uku ta sarautar sarki Yowash, firistocin ba su yi wani gyara a Haikalin ba.