2 Mafumu 12
1 Mʼchaka chachisanu ndi chiwiri cha Yehu, Yowasi anakhala mfumu, ndipo analamulira mu Yerusalemu zaka makumi anayi. Amayi ake anali Zibiya wa ku Beeriseba.
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Yowasi anachita zolungama pamaso pa Yehova masiku onse amene wansembe Yehoyada ankamulangiza.
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3 Komabe sanachotse malo opembedzerapo mafano ndipo anthu anapitiriza kupereka nsembe ndi kufukiza lubani ku malo opembedzerako mafanowo.
However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
4 Yowasi anati kwa ansembe, “Tolerani ndalama zonse zimene zimaperekedwa monga chopereka chopatulika ku Nyumba ya Yehova, ndalama zonse zamsonkho wa munthu aliyense, ndalama zomwe munthu amapereka akalonjeza ndiponso ndalama zimene munthu amapereka mwaufulu ku Nyumba ya Yehova.
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house,
5 Wansembe aliyense alandire ndalamazo kuchokera kwa abwenzi ake, ndipo zigwiritsidwe ntchito yokonzera chilichonse chimene chipezeke kuti ndi chowonongeka mʼnyumbayo.”
let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6 Koma pofika chaka cha 23 cha ufumu wa Yowasi, ansembewo anali asanakonze nyumbayo.
But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
7 Choncho Mfumu Yowasi inayitanitsa wansembe Yehoyada ndi ansembe ena ndipo inafunsa kuti, “Chifukwa chiyani simukukonza malo owonongeka a mʼnyumbayi? Musasungenso ndalama zina zochokera kwa abwenzi anu, koma muzipereke kuti akonzere nyumbayi.”
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
8 Ansembe anavomera kuti salandiranso ndalama kuchokera kwa anthu ndipo kuti sindiwo amene ati akonzenso nyumbayo.
The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
9 Koma wansembe Yehoyada anatenga bokosi ndipo anabowola chivundikiro chake. Anayika bokosilo pambali pa guwa lansembe, kudzanja lamanja la aliyense amene akulowa mʼNyumba ya Yehovayo. Ansembe amene ankalondera pa khomopo ankaponya mʼbokosi ndalama zonse zimene ankabwera nazo ku nyumba ya Yehova.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the LORD’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the LORD’s house into it.
10 Nthawi zonse akaona kuti mʼbokosimo muli ndalama zambiri, mlembi wa mfumu ndi mkulu wa ansembe ankabwera ndipo ankawerenga ndalama zomwe anthu ankabwera nazo ku Nyumba ya Yehova ndi kuziyika mʼmatumba.
When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the LORD’s house.
11 Ankati akadziwa kuti ndalamazo zilipo zingati, ankazipereka kwa anthu amene ankayangʼanira ntchito yokonza nyumbayo. Ndalamazo ankalipira anthu amene ankagwira ntchito yokonza Nyumba ya Yehova, amisiri a matabwa ndi amisiri omanga nyumba,
They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the LORD’s house,
12 amisiri a miyala ndiponso anthu ophwanya miyala. Iwo ankagula matabwa ndi miyala yosema yokonzera Nyumba ya Yehova ndipo ankalipira zinthu zonse zofunika pokonzanso nyumbayo.
and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13 Koma ndalama zomwe anthu ankabwera nazo ku nyumbayo sanagulire siliva wopangira mabeseni, zozimitsira nyale, mbale zowazira magazi, malipenga kapena ziwiya zina zilizonse zagolide kapena zasiliva za ku Nyumba ya Yehova.
But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, shofars, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the LORD’s house;
14 Ndalamazi anazipereka kwa anthu antchito amene anazigwiritsa ntchito yokonzera nyumbayo.
for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it.
15 Koma sanawafunse kuti afotokoze kagwiritsidwe ntchito ka ndalama zolipira amene ankagwira ntchito, chifukwa anthuwo ankagwira ntchitoyo mokhulupirika kwambiri.
Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
16 Ndalama zomwe zinkaperekedwa pa nsembe yopepesera machimo ndi nsembe yoperekedwa chifukwa cha tchimo sanabwere nazo ku Nyumba ya Yehova pakuti zinali za ansembe.
The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.
17 Pa nthawi imeneyo, Hazaeli, mfumu ya Aramu anapita kukathira nkhondo mzinda wa Gati nawulanda. Kenaka Hazaeli anatembenuka kupita kukathira nkhondo mzinda wa Yerusalemu.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 Koma Yowasi mfumu ya Yuda anatenga zinthu zonse zopatulika zomwe anazipatula Yehosafati, Yehoramu, ndi Ahaziya abambo ake, mafumu a Yuda ndi mphatso zonse zomwe iye mwini anazipereka: golide yense amene anapezeka mʼnyumba yosungiramo chuma cha mʼnyumba ya Yehova ndi zomwe zinali mʼnyumba ya mfumu, nazipereka kwa Hazaeli mfumu ya Aramu. Pamenepo iye anachoka ku Yerusalemuko.
Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
19 Ndipo ntchito zina za Yowasi ndi zonse zimene anachita, kodi sizinalembedwe mʼbuku la mbiri ya mafumu a Yuda?
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 Akuluakulu ake anamuchitira chiwembu ndi kumupha ku Beti Milo, pa njira yotsikira ku Silo.
His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21 Yozakara mwana wa Simeati ndi Yehozabadi mwana wa Someri atumiki ake anamukantha nafa. Ndipo anamuyika mʼmanda pamodzi ndi makolo ake mu Mzinda wa Davide. Ndipo Amaziya mwana wake analowa ufumu mʼmalo mwake.
For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
