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].
Jehoash começou a reinar no sétimo ano de Jehu, e ele reinou quarenta anos em Jerusalém. O nome de sua mãe era Zíbia de Berseba.
2 All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
Jehoash fez o que estava certo aos olhos de Iavé todos os seus dias em que Jehoiada, o sacerdote, o instruiu.
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].
However, os lugares altos não lhe foram tirados. O povo ainda sacrificava e queimava incenso nos lugares altos.
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.
Jehoash disse aos sacerdotes: “Todo o dinheiro das coisas sagradas que é trazido à casa de Iavé, em dinheiro corrente, o dinheiro do povo para quem cada homem é avaliado, e todo o dinheiro que entra no coração de qualquer homem para trazer à casa de Iavé,
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.”
deixe os sacerdotes levá-lo a eles, cada homem de seu doador; e eles repararão os danos à casa, onde quer que se encontre algum dano”.
6 But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
Mas foi assim, que no vigésimo terceiro ano do rei Jehoash os padres não haviam reparado os danos da casa.
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!”
Então o rei Jehoash chamou o sacerdote Jehoiada e os outros sacerdotes, e disse-lhes: “Por que vocês não estão reparando os danos da casa? Agora, portanto, não aceitem mais dinheiro de seus tesoureiros, mas entreguem-no para reparar os danos à casa”.
8 The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
Os padres consentiram que não aceitassem mais dinheiro do povo, e que não reparassem os danos à casa.
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.
Mas Jehoiada o padre pegou uma arca e fez um buraco em sua tampa, e a colocou ao lado do altar, do lado direito, ao entrar na casa de Yahweh; e os padres que mantiveram o limiar colocaram todo o dinheiro que foi trazido para a casa de Yahweh dentro dela.
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.
Quando viram que havia muito dinheiro na arca, o escriba do rei e o sumo sacerdote subiram, colocaram-no em sacos e contaram o dinheiro que foi encontrado na casa de Yahweh.
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,
Eles deram o dinheiro que foi pesado nas mãos daqueles que fizeram o trabalho, que tinham a supervisão da casa de Iavé; e o pagaram aos carpinteiros e construtores que trabalharam na casa de Iavé,
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.
e aos pedreiros e cortadores de pedra, e para comprar madeira e pedra cortada para reparar os danos à casa de Iavé, e por tudo o que foi disposto para que a casa a reparasse.
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.
Mas não foram feitos para a casa de Iavé copos de prata, rapé, bacias, trombetas, quaisquer vasos de ouro ou vasos de prata, do dinheiro que foi trazido para a casa de Iavé;
14 All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
pois eles deram isso para aqueles que fizeram o trabalho, e repararam a casa de Iavé com ele.
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.
Moreover eles não exigiram uma contabilidade dos homens em cujas mãos entregaram o dinheiro para dar àqueles que fizeram o trabalho; pois eles lidaram fielmente.
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.
O dinheiro para as ofertas de transgressão e o dinheiro para as ofertas pelo pecado não foi trazido para a casa de Yahweh. Era dos sacerdotes.
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.
Então Hazael, rei da Síria, subiu e lutou contra Gate, e tomou-a; e Hazael preparou seu rosto para subir a Jerusalém.
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.
Jehoash rei de Judá tomou todas as coisas sagradas que Jeosafá e Jeorão e Acazias, seus pais, reis de Judá, tinham dedicado, e suas próprias coisas sagradas, e todo o ouro que foi encontrado nos tesouros da casa de Javé, e da casa do rei, e o enviou a Hazael, rei da Síria; e ele foi embora de Jerusalém.
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’.
Now o resto dos atos de Joás, e tudo o que ele fez, não estão escritos no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?
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.
seus servos se levantaram e fizeram uma conspiração, e atingiram Joás na casa de Millo, no caminho que desce até Silla.
Pois Jozacar, filho de Shimeath, e Jehozabad, filho de Shomer, seus servos, o atingiram e ele morreu; e o enterraram com seus pais na cidade de David; e Amaziah, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.
