Was minded. —Literally, it became with the heart of Joash (2 Chronicles 6:8; 2 Chronicles 9:1; [R…

And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. And it came to pass after this,

Probably, some twenty-three ye…

And it came to pass after this
After his marriage, when he was about twenty or twenty one years of age, perhaps:

Joash is more zealous about the repair of the temple than Jehoiada himself. It is easier to build temples, than to be temples to God. But the repai…