1
Yo'ash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Tzivyah, of Be'er-Sheva.
2
Yo'ash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Yehoiada the Kohen.
3
Yehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4
It happened after this, that Yo'ash was minded to restore the house of the LORD.
5
He gathered together the Kohanim and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Yehudah, and gather of all Yisra'el money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. However the Levites didn't hurry.