Joash was just a boy when he became king so he did not have time to be corrupted by his surroundings. His life, however, was not that long. He was killed when he was forty seven years old by his own officials who conspired against him. His reign would probably have been longer if he had trusted God completely. Instead, when he was threatened with attack by the king of Aram, he gave all of the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers and himself and gave them to Hazael in order to get him to withdraw from Jerusalem.
There were wicked kings who refused to obey God and they always met their end. There were godly kings who trusted God and prospered under God's protection. Joash tried to do what was right, but he never learned to trust God completely and that was his downfall.
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