1. Joash was seven years old when he became king.
2. In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, from Beer-sheba.
3. Joash did what was right in the Lord’s sight as long as he lived, because Jehoiada the priest guided him,
4. though the high places did not disappear; the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.