1. Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2. Joash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3. Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4. After this, Joash intended to restore the Lord’s house.