1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king and reigned 40 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, who was from Beer-sheba.
2 Throughout the time Jehoiada the priest instructed him, Joash did what was right in the Lord’s sight.
3 Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
4 Then Joash said to the priests, “All the dedicated money brought to the Lord’s temple, census money, money from vows, and all money voluntarily given for the Lord’s temple,
5 each priest is to take from his assessor and repair whatever damage to the temple is found.”
6 But by the twenty-third year of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the temple.