列王紀下 12
1 他在耶胡第七年即位為王，在耶路撒冷作王凡四十年。他的母親名叫漆彼雅，是貝耳舍巴人。
In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 約阿士在司祭約雅達教導他期間，行了上主視為正義的事，
Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.
3 只是沒有廢除高丘，人民仍在高丘上焚香獻祭。
But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
4 約阿士對司祭說：「凡人向上主的殿繳納作獻儀錢，不論是人丁贖金，或樂意捐獻於上主殿中的錢，
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment, ) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,
5 司祭們都可以接收，每人也可向相識的人去勸捐；但司祭們應該修理聖殿需要修理的破壞之處。」
Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.
6 但是，直到約阿士王第二十三年，司祭尚未修理聖殿的破壞之處。
But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.
7 於是約阿士王將約雅達大司祭和其他司祭召來，問他們說：「你們為什麼不修理聖殿破壞之處﹖現在你們不要再向相識的人收錢了；應把所有的錢交出，用來修理聖殿的破壞之處。」
Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.
8 司祭們就同意不再向人民收錢，也不再負責修理聖殿的破壞之處。
So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.
9 司祭約雅達於是拿來一個箱子，箱子上面開了一個口，安放在祭壇旁邊，即在上主聖殿入口的右邊，守門的司祭將所有獻於上主聖殿的銀錢，放入箱內。
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.
10 幾時看見箱內的錢夠多了，君王的秘書和大司祭就上來，把錢倒出，數點上主殿內所有的銀錢。
And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.
11 他們將秤好了的錢，交給上主殿內間監工的管理員，由他們發給在上主殿內工作的木匠和建築工人，
And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,
12 泥水匠和石匠，或購買木料和鑿刻好的石頭，用來修補上主殿內的破壞之處；總之，用來作為修理聖殿的費用。
And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.
13 進獻於上主聖殿的銀錢，並沒有用來製造上主殿內的銀盆、燭剪、盤子、號筒，或任何金銀器皿，
But the money was not used for making silver cups or scissors or basins or wind-instruments or any vessels of gold or silver for the house of the Lord;
14 只是將銀錢交給工作人員，用來修理上主的殿。
But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.
15 也並不需要向那些經手收錢付給工人的人算賬，因為他們做事忠信可靠。
And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.
16 至於獻作贖過祭和贖罪祭的錢，不歸於上主的殿，全歸於司祭。
The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.
17 那時，阿蘭王哈匝耳上來攻打加特，也攻下了，準備進攻耶路撒冷。
Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem.
18 猶大王約阿士就將他祖先猶大王約沙法特、約蘭和阿哈齊雅所奉獻的聖物，同他自己奉獻的聖物，以及上主聖殿和王宮的府庫內儲藏的金子，全部取出來，送給了阿蘭王哈匝耳；哈匝耳就離開了耶路撒冷。
Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.
19 約阿士其餘的事蹟，他行的一切，都記載在猶大列王實錄上。
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
20 約阿士的臣僕起來結黨謀反，在約阿士下到米羅宮時，將他殺死；
And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.
21 殺他的是他的臣僕史默阿特的兒子約匝加爾和芍默爾的兒子約匝巴得。他死後，人將他葬在達味城，與祖先埋在一起；他的兒子阿瑪責雅繼位為王。
And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.
