2 Chronicles 24

1 Joash was seven years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled in Jerusalem for 40 years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba [city].

یوآش هفت ساله بود که پادشاه شد و چهل سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. (مادرش ظبیه، از اهالی بئرشبع بود.)

2 Joash did what pleased Yahweh as long as Jehoiada was [the Supreme] Priest.

مادامی که یهویاداع کاهن زنده بود یوآش مطابق میل خداوند رفتار می‌کرد.

3 Jehoiada chose two women to be Joash’s wives. And they bore Joash sons and daughters.

یهویاداع دو زن برای یوآش گرفت و آنها برای او پسران و دختران به دنیا آوردند.

4 Some years later, Joash decided that the temple should be repaired.

سپس یوآش تصمیم گرفت خانهٔ خداوند را تعمیر کند.

5 He summoned the priests and other descendants of Levi and said to them, “Go to the towns in Judah and collect from the people the tax money that they are required to pay each year, and use that money to pay for repairing the temple. Do it immediately.” But the descendants of Levi did not do it immediately.

او کاهنان و لاویان را فرا خواند و این دستور را به ایشان داد: «به تمام شهرهای یهودا بروید و هدایای سالیانه را جمع کنید تا بتوانیم خانهٔ خدا را تعمیر کنیم. هر چه زودتر این کار را انجام دهید.» اما لاویان تأخیر نمودند.

6 So the king summoned Jehoiada and said to him, “Why have you not required the descendants of Levi to bring to Jerusalem from various places in Judah the annual/yearly tax that Moses said that the people of Judah must pay, for taking care of the Sacred Tent?”

بنابراین پادشاه، یهویاداع کاهن اعظم را خواست و به او گفت: «چرا از لاویان نخواسته‌ای که بروند و مالیات خانهٔ خدا را که موسی، خدمتگزار خداوند مقرر کرده، از شهرهای یهودا و اورشلیم جمع‌آوری کنند؟»

7 [The temple needed to be repaired] because the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had entered into the temple [and had wrecked some of the things], and had also used some of the sacred items that were in it for [the worship of] Baal.

(پیروان عتلیای فاسد، خسارات زیادی به خانهٔ خدا وارد کرده بودند و اشیاء مقدّس آن را غارت نموده، آنها را در بتخانهٔ بعل گذاشته بودند.)

8 So, obeying what the king commanded, the descendants of Levi made a chest and placed it outside the temple, at one of the entrances.

پس پادشاه دستور داد که صندوقی بسازند و آن را بیرون دروازهٔ خانهٔ خداوند بگذارند.

9 Then the king sent letters everywhere in Judah, requesting everyone to bring their tax money to the temple, like Moses had required the Israeli people to do [when they were] in the desert.

سپس در همهٔ شهرهای یهودا و اورشلیم اعلام نمود که مالیاتی را که موسی برای قوم اسرائیل مقرر کرده، برای خداوند بیاورند.

10 All the officials and the other people [agreed, and they] brought their contributions gladly. They put the money into the chest until it was full.

بنابراین، تمام قوم و رهبرانشان با خوشحالی مالیات خود را می‌آوردند و در آن صندوق می‌ریختند تا اینکه پر می‌شد.

11 Whenever the descendants of Levi brought the chest to the king’s officials, and they saw that there was a lot of money in it, the king’s secretary and the assistant to the [Supreme] Priest would take all the money from the chest, and then put the chest back in its place. They did this frequently, and they collected a huge amount of money.

سپس لاویان صندوق را به مسئول آن که از دربار بود تحویل می‌دادند. هر وقت پول زیادی جمع می‌شد کاتب و نمایندهٔ کاهن اعظم پولها را از صندوق خارج می‌کردند و صندوق را دوباره به خانهٔ خدا برمی‌گرداندند. این کار هر روز ادامه داشت و مردم مرتب در صندوق پول می‌ریختند.

12 The king and Jehoiada gave the money to the men who were supervising the work of repairing the temple. Those men hired stoneworkers and carpenters to repair the temple. They also hired men who worked with iron and bronze to repair things in the temple [that were broken].

پادشاه و یهویاداع پولها را به ناظران کار ساختمانی می‌دادند و ایشان بناها، نجارها و فلزکارها را برای تعمیر خانهٔ خداوند به کار می‌گرفتند.

13 The men who did the repair work worked hard, and the work of repairing the temple progressed. They rebuilt the temple so that it was like it was originally, and they even made it stronger.

به این ترتیب، کارگران به تعمیر خانهٔ خدا پرداختند و آن را مستحکم ساخته، به صورت اول درآوردند.

14 When they had finished the repair work, they brought to the king and to Jehoiada the money that they had not used for the repairs. That money was used to make things to use for offering the sacrifices that were completely burned [on the altar], and to make bowls and other gold and silver things for the temple. As long as Joash lived, the people continually brought to the temple sacrifices that were to be completely burned on the altar.

وقتی تعمیرات خانهٔ خدا تمام شد، باقیماندهٔ پول را نزد پادشاه و یهویاداع آوردند و آنها دستور دادند با آن پول، ظروف طلا و نقره و وسایل دیگر برای خانهٔ خداوند درست کنند. در طول عمر یهویاداع کاهن، قربانیهای سوختنی به طور مرتب در خانهٔ خداوند تقدیم می‌شد.

15 Jehoiada lived to become very old. He died when he was 130 years old.

یهویاداع در کمال پیری، در سن ۱۳۰ سالگی درگذشت

16 He was buried where the kings had been buried, in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. [He was buried there] because of the good things that he had done in Judah for God and for God’s temple.

و در شهر داوود در آرامگاه سلطنتی دفن شد، زیرا در اسرائیل برای خدا و خانهٔ او خدمات ارزنده‌ای انجام داده بود.

17 After Jehoiada died, the leaders of Judah went to Joash, bowed in front of him, and persuaded him to do what they wanted.

اما پس از مرگ یهویاداع، بزرگان یهودا نزد یوآش پادشاه آمده، با سخنان خود او را تحریک کردند تا دست از خانهٔ خداوند، خدای اجدادش بکشد و همراه ایشان بت شرم‌آور اشیره و بتهای دیگر را بپرستد. پادشاه سخنان آنها را پذیرفت و از این رو بار دیگر خشم خدا بر یهودا و اورشلیم افروخته شد.

18 So they and the other people stopped worshiping at the temple, and they started worshiping the poles dedicated to [the goddess] Asherah and other idols. Because of their doing those sinful things, God was very angry with the people of Jerusalem and [with the people in other places in] Judah.

19 Although Yahweh sent prophets to persuade them to return to him, and although the prophets told them about the evil things that they had done, the people would not pay attention.

خداوند انبیایی فرستاد تا آنها را به سوی خود بازگرداند، ولی مردم اعتنا نکردند.

20 Then God’s Spirit came upon Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the [Supreme] Priest. He stood up front of the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you disobeying what I, Yahweh, have commanded? You have abandoned me, so I will abandon you.’”

سپس روح خدا بر زکریا، پسر یهویاداع نازل شد. او در مقابل قوم ایستاده، گفت: «خداوند می‌فرماید: چرا از دستورهای من سرپیچی می‌کنید و خود را دچار مصیبت می‌نمایید. شما مرا ترک گفته‌اید، من هم شما را ترک می‌گویم.»

21 But the people planned to kill Zechariah. And the king joined them in doing it. The people killed Zechariah by throwing stones at him in the temple courtyard.

بزرگان یهودا بر ضد زکریا توطئه چیدند و به دستور یوآش پادشاه، او را در حیاط خانهٔ خداوند سنگسار کرده، کشتند.

22 King Joash had forgotten about how Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had been kind to him. That’s why he gave orders for the people to kill Jehoiada’s son Zechariah, who said as he was dying, “I hope that Yahweh will see [what you are doing to me] and punish [you for doing it].”

پس یوآش خوبی‌های یهویاداع را فراموش کرد و پسرش را کشت. زکریا قبل از مرگش چنین گفت: «خداوند این را ببیند و از شما بازخواست کند.»

23 Near the end of that year (OR, early in the following year), the army of Syria marched to attack [the army of] Joash. They invaded Judah and attacked Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They [seized many valuable things and] sent them to their king in Damascus, [their capital city.]

چند ماه پس از کشته شدن زکریا، نیروهای سوری، یهودا و اورشلیم را تسخیر کردند و همهٔ سران کشور را کشتند. آنها تمام غنایمی را که به چنگ آوردند برای پادشاه سوریه فرستادند.

24 The army of Syria [that came to Judah] was very small, but Yahweh allowed them to defeat the large army of Judah, because he was punishing Joash and the other people of Judah for having abandoned him, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.

برای سپاه کوچک سوریه این یک پیروزی بزرگ محسوب می‌شد. خداوند به آنها اجازه داد سپاه نیرومند یهودا را شکست دهند، زیرا مردم یهودا خداوند، خدای اجدادشان را ترک گفته بودند. به این طریق خدا یوآش پادشاه را مجازات کرد.

25 Before the battle ended, Joash was severely wounded. Then his officials decided to kill him for murdering Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the [Supreme] Priest. They killed him while he was in his bed. He was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, but they did not bury him in the place where the other kings had been buried.

سوری‌ها یوآش را به شدت مجروح کرده، از آنجا رفتند. در این ضمن دو نفر از افراد یوآش تصمیم گرفتند انتقام خون زکریا پسر یهویاداع را از او بگیرند. پس او را در بسترش کشتند و بعد در شهر داوود دفن کردند، اما نه در آرامگاه سلطنتی.

26 Those who conspired to kill him were Zabad the son of Shimeath, who was a woman from the Ammon [people-group], and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith, who was a woman from the Moab [people-group].

توطئه‌کنندگان، زاباد پسر یک زن عمونی به نام شمعه و یهوزاباد پسر یک زن موآبی به نام شمریت بودند.

27 An account of the things that were done by the sons of Joash and the many prophecies about Joash and what he did to repair the temple are written in the scroll called ‘the History of the Kings [of Judah and Israel]’. Then after Joash died, Amaziah his son became the king.

شرح حال پسران یوآش و نبوّتهایی که دربارهٔ او شد و شرح تعمیر خانهٔ خدا در کتاب «تاریخ پادشاهان» نوشته شده است. بعد از مرگ یوآش، پسرش اَمَصیا به جای او پادشاه شد.