Anden Kongebog 12

1 I Jehus syvende Aar blev Joas Konge og regerede fyrretyve Aar i Jerusalem, og hans Moders Navn var Zibja fra Beersaba.

In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

2 Og Joas gjorde det, som ret var for Herrens Øjne, alle sine Dage, i hvilke Jojada, Præsten, vejledede ham.

And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 Dog bleve Højene ikke borttagne; Folket ofrede og gjorde Røgelse endnu paa Højene.

But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

4 Og Joas sagde til Præsterne: Alle Penge for de Ting, som helliges, som bringes til Herrens Hus, nemlig Penge for hver, som gaar over i Mandtallet, Penge, som de give for Personer, hver efter sin Vurdering, alle Penge, som hver Mand ofrer af et frivilligt Hjerte for at bringe dem til Herrens Hus,

And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

5 dem skulle Præsterne modtage, hver af sin Kynding, og de skulle istandsætte Husets Brøst, nemlig alt det, som findes der brøstfældigt.

Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

6 Men i Kong Joas's tre og tyvende Aar havde Præsterne endnu ikke istandsat det, som var brøstfældigt i Huset.

But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

7 Da kaldte Kong Joas ad Jojada, Præsten, og de andre Præster og sagde til dem: Hvi istandsætte I ikke det, som er brøstfældigt i Huset? nu vel, modtager ikke Penge af eders Kyndinger, men afgiver dem til det, som er brøstfældigt i Huset.

Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

8 Og Præsterne samtykkede deri, saa at de ikke modtoge Penge af Folket og ikke istandsatte det, som var brøstfældigt i Huset.

And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

9 Men Jojada, Præsten, tog en Kiste og borede et Hul i Laaget derpaa og satte den ved den højre Side af Alteret, hvor man gaar ind i Herrens Hus, og Præsterne, som toge Vare paa Dørtærskelen, lagde deri alle Penge, som bleve bragte til Herrens Hus.

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.

10 Og det skete, naar de saa, at der var mange Penge i Kisten, da kom Kongens Skriver og Ypperstepræsten op, og de sammenbandt og talte Pengene, som fandtes i Herrens Hus.

And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

11 Og de gave Pengene, som vare aftalte, i deres Hænder, som havde med Gerningen at gøre, og som vare beskikkede over Herrens Hus; og de gave dem ud til Tømmermændene og til Bygningsmændene, som arbejdede paa Herrens Hus,

And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

12 og til Murmestere og Stenhuggere og til at købe Træ og hugne Sten til at istandsætte det, som var brøstfældigt paa Herrens Hus, ja til alt det, som gik med til Husets Istandsættelse.

And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it].

13 Dog blev der ikke gjort Sølvbækkener, Knive, Skaaler, Basuner eller noget Kar af Guld eller Kar af Sølv til Herrens Hus for de Penge, som bragtes til Herrens Hus.

Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:

14 Men de gave dem til dem, som havde med Gerningen at gøre, og de istandsatte Herrens Hus for dem.

But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.

15 Og de holdt ikke Regnskab med Mændene, i hvis Haand de overgave Pengene, for at give dem til dem, som gjorde Gerningen; thi de handlede med Troskab.

Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

16 Men Pengene for Skyldofferet og Pengene for Syndofferet bleve ikke bragte til Herrens Hus, de hørte Præsterne til.

The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.

17 Da drog Hasael, Kongen af Syrien, op og stred imod Gath og indtog den, og Hasael rettede sit Ansigt til at drage op imod Jerusalem.

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 Da tog Joas, Judas Konge, alle de hellige Ting, som Josafat og Joram og Ahasia, hans Fædre, Judas Konger, havde helliget, og hvad han selv havde helliget, dertil alt det Guld, som man fandt i Herrens Hus's og i Kongens Hus's Skatkamre, og sendte det til Hasael, Kongen af Syrien; og denne drog da bort fra Jerusalem.

And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

19 Men det øvrige af Joas's Handeler, og alt det, som han gjorde, ere de Ting ikke skrevne i Judas Kongers Krønikers Bog?

And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20 Og hans Tjenere rejste sig og indgik et Forbund, og de ihjelsloge Joas i Millos Hus, hvor man gaar ned til Silla:

And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

21 Nemlig Josakar, Simeaths Søn, og Josabad, Somers Søn, hans Tjenere, sloge ham ihjel, og han døde; og de begravede ham hos hans Fædre i Davids Stad, og Amazia, hans Søn, blev Konge i hans Sted.

For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.