2 Kings 12
1 When Jehu had been ruling Israel for almost seven years, Joash became the king of Judah. He ruled in Jerusalem for 40 years. His mother was Zibiah, from Beersheba [city].
I det sjuande styringsåret åt Jehu vart Joas konge, og fyrti år rådde han i Jerusalem. Mor hans heitte Sibja, frå Be’erseba.
2 All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
Joas gjorde alle sine dagar det som rett var for Herren, med di presten Jojada rettleidde honom.
3 But the places where the people worshiped [Yahweh] on the tops of hills were not destroyed, and they continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense at those places, [instead of at the place that God had chosen for them in Jerusalem].
Berre vart offerhaugarne haldne ved lag; folket heldt ved å ofra slagtoffer og røykoffer på haugarne.
4 Joash said to the priests, “You must take all the money which the people contribute, both the money they are required to give and the money that they themselves decide to give, as sacred offerings to buy things for the temple.
Joas gav prestarne det bodet: «Alle pengarne som kjem til Herrens hus i heilage gåvor, ålgjengd mynt, og i løysepengar for einkvan, sameleis alle pengar som einkvan sjølvminnt gjev åt Herrens hus,
5 Each priest must take the money from people who know him (OR, from one of the treasurers), and he must use that money to repair the temple whenever he sees that there is something that needs to be repaired.”
dei skal prestarne taka imot, kvar av sine kjenningar, og nytta det til å setja i stand det som er forfalle i huset, all stad det finn ein brest.»
6 But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
Men i tri og tjugande styringsåret åt kong Joas hadde ikkje prestarne endå bøtt bresterne i huset.
7 So Joash summoned Jehoiada and the other priests and said to them, “(Why are you not repairing things in the temple?/You should have been repairing things in the temple!) [RHQ] From now on, you must not keep the money that you receive from people who know you (OR, the treasurers). You must give it to the people who will be repairing things in the temple!”
Kong Joas kalla då til seg presten Jojada og dei andre prestarne: «Kvifor hev de ikkje bøtt bresterne i Herrens hus?» spurde han; «heretter fær ikkje de taka imot pengar av kjenningarne dykkar; de skal lata deim frå dykk, til å bøta på huset.»
8 The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
Prestarne gjekk med på det, at dei skulde ikkje taka imot pengar av folket, og ikkje hava noko med å bøta huset.
9 Then Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in the lid. He placed it alongside the altar [for burning incense/sacrifices] that was on the right as anyone enters the temple. The priests who guarded the entrance to the temple put in the box the money that was brought to the temple.
Presten Jojada tok ei kista, bora hol i loket og sette henne jamsides altaret på høgre sida av inngangen til Herrens hus. Og der lagde då prestarne som heldt vakt på dørstokken, alle pengar folk hadde med seg til Herrens hus.
10 Whenever they saw that there was a lot of money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the Supreme Priest would come and count the money. Then they would put it in bags and tie the bags shut.
So snart dei såg at det var nøgdi av pengar i kista, gjekk kongens skrivar og øvstepresten dit upp, og knytte i hop alle pengarne som fanst i Herrens hus, talde deim
11 Then, after they weighed it, they would give the money to the men who supervised the work in the temple. Then the supervisors would use that money to pay the carpenters and builders who did the repair work in the temple,
og vog deim, og flidde deim åt tilsynsmennerne for arbeidarane ved Herrens hus; dei reidde deim ut til timbremennerne og bygningsmeistrarne som arbeidde på Herrens hus,
12 and the masons and the stone cutters. Also with some of that money they bought timber and stones that had been cut to be used in the repair work, and to pay all the other expenses for the repair work.
og til murarane og steinhoggarane, like eins til innkjøp av trevyrke og hoggen stein, til å bøta brester i Herrens hus; stutt sagt: til alle utlogor ved hus-bøtingi.
13 But they did not use any of that money [to pay men] to make silver cups or wick trimmers or bowls or trumpets or any other items made of silver or gold to be used in the temple.
Derimot laga dei ikkje sylvfat til Herrens hus for dei pengarne som kom inn i huset, ikkje heller ljosesaksar, skålar eller trompetar av sylv, eller onnor tempelgogn av gull eller sylv;
14 All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
nei, alt vart gjeve til arbeidarane, og dei nytta det til å bøta Herrens hus.
15 The men who supervised the work always did things honestly, so the king’s secretary and the Supreme Priest never required that the supervisors report what they had spent the money for.
Dei kravde ingen rekneskap av deim som tok imot pengarne og gav deim til arbeidarane; dei fekk gjera det på tru og æra.
16 But the money that people gave to pay for the wrong things that they had done and the money they gave to purify themselves because of the sins that they had committed was not put in the chest. That money belonged to the priests.
Men pengar som kom inn for skuldoffer og syndoffer, vart ikkje lagde i Herrens hus; dei gjekk til prestarne.
17 At that time, Hazael, the king of Syria, went [with his army] and attacked Gath [city] and conquered it. Then he decided that they would attack Jerusalem.
Den tid drog syrarkongen Hazael upp og hertok Gat. Hazael etla seg jamvel til ei ferd mot Jerusalem.
18 So Joash, the king of Judah, took all the money that the previous kings, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, had dedicated to Yahweh. He added some of his own money, and all the gold that was in the rooms in the temple where valuable things were kept/stored, and the gold in his palace, and sent it all to King Hazael, [to (appease him/persuade him to not attack Jerusalem)]. So King Hazael [took his army] away from Jerusalem.
Joas, Juda-kongen, tok då alle dei heilage gåvorne som Juda-kongarne Josafat, Joram og Ahazja, federne hans, hadde helga åt Herren, og sine eigne heilage gåvor, og alt gullet som fanst i skattkammeret i Herrens hus, og sende det til syrarkongen Hazael. Og då drog han burt frå Jerusalem.
19 [If you want to read more of] what Joash did, [it] is all written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
Det som elles er å fortelja um Joas og alt det han gjorde, det er uppskrive i krønikeboki åt Juda-kongarne.
20 Joash’s officials plotted against him, and two of them killed Joash on the road that goes down to [the] Silla [district]. The two men who did that were Jozabad, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer. Joash was buried in the place where his ancestors were buried, [in the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then Joash’s son Amaziah became the king of Judah.
Hirdmennerne hans gjorde uppreist, samansvor seg og slo i hel Joas i Millo-bygnaden, som rekk ned mot Silla.
Det var Jozakar Sim’atsson og Jozabad Somersson, hirdmennerne hans, som slo honom i hel. Han vart gravlagd hjå federne sine i Davidsbyen; og Amasja, son hans, vart konge i staden hans.
