1. Yo’ash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Tsiḇyah of Be’ĕrsheḇa.
2. And Yo’ash did what was right in the eyes of יהוה all the days of Yehoyaḏa the priest.
3. And Yehoyaḏa took for him two wives, and he brought forth sons and daughters.
4. And after this it came to be that Yo’ash set his heart on restoring the House of יהוה.
5. And he gathered the priests and the Lĕwites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Yehuḏah, and gather from all Yisra’ĕl silver to repair the House of your Elohim from year to year, and see that you hurry the matter.” But the Lĕwites did not hurry it.