2 Chronicles 24
1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
约阿施登基的时候年七岁，在耶路撒冷作王四十年。他母亲名叫西比亚，是别是巴人。
2 Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
祭司耶何耶大在世的时候，约阿施行耶和华眼中看为正的事。
3 Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
耶何耶大为他娶了两个妻，并且生儿养女。
4 After this, Joash intended to restore the LORD’s house.
此后，约阿施有意重修耶和华的殿，
5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites did not do it right away.
便召聚众祭司和利未人，吩咐他们说：“你们要往犹大各城去，使以色列众人捐纳银子，每年可以修理你们 神的殿；你们要急速办理这事。”只是利未人不急速办理。
6 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why have not you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
王召了大祭司耶何耶大来，对他说：“从前耶和华的仆人摩西，为法柜的帐幕与以色列会众所定的捐项，你为何不叫利未人照这例从犹大和耶路撒冷带来作殿的费用呢？”（
7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the LORD’s house to the Baals.
因为那恶妇亚她利雅的众子曾拆毁 神的殿，又用耶和华殿中分别为圣的物供奉巴力。）
8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the LORD’s house.
于是王下令，众人做了一柜，放在耶和华殿的门外，
9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
又通告犹大和耶路撒冷的百姓，要将 神仆人摩西在旷野所吩咐以色列人的捐项给耶和华送来。
10 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
众首领和百姓都欢欢喜喜地将银子送来，投入柜中，直到捐完。
11 Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
利未人见银子多了，就把柜抬到王所派的司事面前；王的书记和大祭司的属员来将柜倒空，仍放在原处。日日都是这样，积蓄的银子甚多。
12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the LORD’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the LORD’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the LORD’s house.
王与耶何耶大将银子交给耶和华殿里办事的人，他们就雇了石匠、木匠重修耶和华的殿，又雇了铁匠、铜匠修理耶和华的殿。
13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.
工人操作，渐渐修成，将 神殿修造得与从前一样，而且甚是坚固。
14 When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the LORD’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
工程完了，他们就把其余的银子拿到王与耶何耶大面前，用以制造耶和华殿供奉所用的器皿和调羹，并金银的器皿。 耶何耶大在世的时候，众人常在耶和华殿里献燔祭。
15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
耶何耶大年纪老迈，日子满足而死。死的时候年一百三十岁，
16 They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
葬在大卫城列王的坟墓里；因为他在以色列人中行善，又事奉 神，修理 神的殿。
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
耶何耶大死后，犹大的众首领来朝拜王；王就听从他们。
18 They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
他们离弃耶和华—他们列祖 神的殿，去事奉亚舍拉和偶像；因他们这罪，就有忿怒临到犹大和耶路撒冷。
19 Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
但 神仍遣先知到他们那里，引导他们归向耶和华。这先知警戒他们，他们却不肯听。
20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.’”
那时， 神的灵感动祭司耶何耶大的儿子撒迦利亚，他就站在上面对民说：“神如此说：你们为何干犯耶和华的诫命，以致不得亨通呢？因为你们离弃耶和华，所以他也离弃你们。”
21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.
众民同心谋害撒迦利亚，就照王的吩咐，在耶和华殿的院内用石头打死他。
22 Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May the LORD look at it, and repay it.”
这样，约阿施王不想念撒迦利亚的父亲耶何耶大向自己所施的恩，杀了他的儿子。撒迦利亚临死的时候说：“愿耶和华鉴察伸冤！”
23 At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.
满了一年，亚兰的军兵上来攻击约阿施，来到犹大和耶路撒冷，杀了民中的众首领，将所掠的财货送到大马士革王那里。
24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
亚兰的军兵虽来了一小队，耶和华却将大队的军兵交在他们手里，是因犹大人离弃耶和华—他们列祖的 神，所以借亚兰人惩罚约阿施。
25 When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
亚兰人离开约阿施的时候，他患重病；臣仆背叛他，要报祭司耶何耶大儿子流血之仇，杀他在床上，葬他在大卫城，只是不葬在列王的坟墓里。
26 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
背叛他的是亚扪妇人示米押的儿子撒拔和摩押妇人示米利的儿子约萨拔。
27 Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
至于他的众子和他所受的警戒，并他重修 神殿的事，都写在列王的传上。他儿子亚玛谢接续他作王。
