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].
Joás comenzó a reinar en el séptimo año de Jehú, y reinó cuarenta años en Jerusalén. Su madre se llamaba Sibías de Beerseba.
2 All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
Joás hizo lo que era justo a los ojos de Yahvé durante todos sus días, en lo que le instruyó el sacerdote Joiada.
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].
Sin embargo, los lugares altos no fueron quitados. El pueblo seguía sacrificando y quemando incienso en los 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.
Yahvé dijo a los sacerdotes: “Todo el dinero de las cosas sagradas que se traiga a la casa de Yahvé, en dinero corriente, el dinero del pueblo por el que se evalúa cada uno, y todo el dinero que se le ocurra a cualquier hombre traer a la casa de Yahvé,
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.”
que los sacerdotes se lo lleven, cada uno de su donante; y ellos repararán el daño de la casa, dondequiera que se encuentre cualquier daño.”
6 But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
Pero sucedió que en el año veintitrés del rey Joás los sacerdotes no habían reparado los daños de la 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!”
Entonces el rey Joás llamó al sacerdote Joiada y a los demás sacerdotes y les dijo: “¿Por qué no reparáis los daños de la casa? Ahora, pues, no toméis más dinero de vuestros tesoros, sino entregadlo para reparar los daños de la casa.”
8 The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
Los sacerdotes consintieron en no tomar más dinero del pueblo y en no reparar el daño causado a la 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.
Pero el sacerdote Joiada tomó un cofre, le hizo un agujero en la tapa y lo puso al lado del altar, a la derecha, como se entra en la casa de Yahvé; y los sacerdotes que guardaban el umbral pusieron en él todo el dinero que se traía a la casa de Yahvé.
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.
Cuando vieron que había mucho dinero en el cofre, subieron el escriba del rey y el sumo sacerdote, y lo pusieron en bolsas y contaron el dinero que se encontraba en la casa de Yahvé.
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,
Dieron el dinero que se había pesado en manos de los que hacían la obra, que tenían la supervisión de la casa de Yahvé; y lo pagaron a los carpinteros y a los constructores que trabajaban en la casa de Yahvé,
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.
y a los albañiles y a los canteros, y para comprar madera y piedra cortada para reparar los daños de la casa de Yahvé, y para todo lo que se hizo en la casa para repararla.
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.
Pero no se hicieron para la casa de Yahvé copas de plata, tazas, jofainas, trompetas, ningún vaso de oro ni de plata, del dinero que se traía a la casa de Yahvé;
14 All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
porque eso se lo daban a los que hacían la obra, y con eso reparaban la casa de Yahvé.
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.
Además, no pidieron cuentas a los hombres en cuya mano entregaron el dinero para que lo entregaran a los que hacían la obra, pues actuaron con fidelidad.
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.
El dinero para las ofrendas por la culpa y el dinero para las ofrendas por el pecado no entraba en la casa de Yahvé. Era de los 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.
Entonces subió Hazael, rey de Siria, y combatió contra Gat, y la tomó; y Hazael se dispuso a subir a Jerusalén.
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.
Joás, rey de Judá, tomó todas las cosas sagradas que Josafat, Joram y Ocozías, sus padres, reyes de Judá, habían dedicado, y sus propias cosas sagradas, y todo el oro que se encontraba en los tesoros de la casa de Yahvé y de la casa real, y lo envió a Hazael, rey de Siria; y se fue de Jerusalén.
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’.
El resto de los hechos de Joás, y todo lo que hizo, ¿no está escrito en el libro de las crónicas de los reyes 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.
Sus siervos se levantaron e hicieron una conspiración, y golpearon a Joás en la casa de Millo, en el camino que desciende a Silla.
Pues Jozacar, hijo de Simeat, y Jozabad, hijo de Shomer, sus servidores, lo hirieron, y murió; y lo enterraron con sus padres en la ciudad de David; y su hijo Amasías reinó en su lugar.
