1
Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
2
And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.
3
And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.
4
After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.
5
And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but the Levites were negligent.