After some time, Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.
They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and began to serve the asherahs and the idols; and because of this crime of theirs, wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Jehoiada provided him with two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
For the wicked Athaliah and her sons had damaged the house of God and had even turned over to the Baals the holy things of the Lord’s house.