After this, Joash intended to restore the house of YHWH.
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house and they even used the dedicated things from the house of YHWH for the Baals.
They abandoned the house of YHWH, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
