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.