Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.
Ver. 1. And he reigned forty years.] See 2 Kings 12:1 .
His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.] Whatever his mother was, his foster mother, his aunt Jehoshebah, did all the offices of a good mother to him; but he ill requited her in her son Zechariah. It is said of the Irish, a that the love of foster brothers amongst them far surpasses all the loves of all men.
a Camden's Elisab.