And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Jehovah. Only, the high places were not taken away; the people offered and burned incense yet in the high places.
You knew my father David, that he was not able to build a house to the name of Jehovah his God because of the wars that were all around him, until Jehovah had put them under the soles of his feet.
And Joash said to the priests, All the silver of the devoted things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the silver coming over, each man the silver of the value of the soul, all the silver that comes upon any man’s heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,
And I shall destroy your high places and cut down your altars, and shall put your dead bodies on the carcasses of your idols. And My soul shall loathe you.
And they answered them and said, He is. See, he is before you. Hurry now, for today he will come into the city, for the people have a sacrifice in the high place.