1. Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. Jehoash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.