2 Chronicles 24:1-5
2 Chronicles 24:1
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah from Beersheba.
2 Chronicles 24:2
Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles 24:3
Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters. Faithless Priests
2 Chronicles 24:4
Now it came about after this that Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 24:5
He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to repair the house of your God annually, and you shall do the work quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.