2Ch 24:1-6 | ESV | STEP | Joash was seven years old when he began to reign , and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem . His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba .

2 Chronicles 24:1-6

Joash Repairs the Temple

1 ^aJoash ^{▼▼Spelled Jehoash in 2 Kings 12:1} was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2 ^cAnd Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 3 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

4 After this Joash ^ddecided to ^erestore the house of the Lord. 5 And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of ^fJudah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly. 6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem ^gthe tax levied by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the congregation of Israel for ^hthe tent of testimony?”