1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2. And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.