Fiawo 2 12
1 Le Yehu ƒe fiaɖuɖu le Israel ƒe ƒe adrelia me la, Yoas zu Yuda fia. Eɖu fia le Yerusalem ƒe blaene. Dadae nye Zibia tso Beerseba.
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Ewɔ nu dzɔdzɔe le eƒe agbemeŋkekewo katã me elabena nunɔlagã Yehoiada fia afɔɖoƒee.
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3 Gake, megbã nuxeƒewo le toawo dzi o, ale ameawo gasaa vɔ eye wogadoa dzudzɔ ʋeʋĩ le afi ma kokoko.
However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4 Yoas gblɔ na nunɔlawo be, “Miƒo ƒu ga siwo katã wotsɔ vɛ na Yehowa abe nunana kɔkɔewo ene, ga si miekpɔ le amexexlẽ la me, ga si ka mia si, si nye amewo ƒe adzɔgbeɖeɖewo kple lɔlɔ̃nununana si amewo tsɔ va gbedoxɔ la me.
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house,
5 Mina nunɔla ɖe sia ɖe naxɔ ga la tso gadzikpɔla ɖeka si eye miawɔ eŋu dɔ adzra nu sia nu si miekpɔ be egblẽ le gbedoxɔa me la ɖo.”
let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6 Ke le eƒe fiaɖuɖu ƒe ƒe blaeve-vɔ-etɔ̃lia me la, nunɔlawo medzra gbedoxɔ la ɖo o.
But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
7 Ale Yoas yɔ Yehoiada kple nunɔla bubuawo eye wògblɔ na wo be, “Nu ka ta miewɔ naneke tso gbedoxɔ la ŋu kpɔ o? Azɔ la, migawɔ ga aɖeke ŋu dɔ na miawo ŋutɔ ƒe nuhiahiãwo o. Tso azɔ dzi yina la, ele be miawɔ ga ɖe sia ɖe ŋu dɔ hena gbedoxɔ la dzadzraɖo.”
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
8 Ale nunɔlawo ɖo be yewoaɖo ga tɔxɛ aɖe da ɖi si mato yewoƒe asi me o, ale be yewomawɔ eŋu dɔ na yewo ŋutɔ ƒe nuhiahiãwo o.
The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
9 Nunɔla Yehoiada ɖe do gã aɖe ɖe tsitrenuɖaka gã aɖe tame eye wòtsɔe da ɖe vɔsamlekpui si le gbedoxɔ la ƒe mɔnu la ƒe ɖusime. Ʋɔtrua ŋu dzɔlawo tsɔa ga siwo ameawo tsɔna vɛ la dea eme.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the LORD’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the LORD’s house into it.
10 Ne tsitrenuɖaka la yɔ la, fia ƒe gaŋutinyaŋlɔla kple nunɔlagã la xlẽa ga la, denɛ kotokuwo me
When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the LORD’s house.
11 Esi woɖo kpe ga homea dzi la, wotsɔe na ame siwo wotia be woakpɔ dɔa dzi le gbedoxɔ la ŋuti. Wotsɔ ga sia xe fe na ame siwo wɔ dɔ le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ la ŋu, atikpalawo kple xɔtulawo,
They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the LORD’s house,
12 gliɖolawo kple kpekpalawo. Woƒle ati kple kpe kpakpawo hena Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ la dzadzra ɖo eye woxe fe bubu ɖe sia ɖe si ku ɖe gbedoxɔ la dzadzraɖo ŋu.
and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13 Womewɔ ga si wotsɔ va gbedoxɔ la me la ŋu dɔ na klosalogbawo, akaɖimeɖovulãnuwo, ʋutrewo, kpẽwo alo nu bubu ɖe sia ɖe si wowɔ kple sika alo klosalo la ƒeƒle na Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ o.
But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the LORD’s house;
14 Wotsɔe xe fee na dɔwɔlawo, ame siwo dzra gbedoxɔ la ɖo.
for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it.
15 Womebia tso dɔdzikpɔlawo si be woawɔ akɔnta na ame aɖeke o elabena wonye nuteƒewɔlawo.
Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
16 Ke wotsɔa ga siwo amewo nana abe fɔɖivɔsa kple nu vɔ̃ ŋuti vɔsa ene la ya naa nunɔlawo hena wo ŋu dɔ wɔwɔ. Ga siawo ya megena ɖe tsitrenuɖaka la me o.
The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.
17 Fia Hazael, Siria fia ho aʋa ɖe Gat ŋu le ɣeyiɣi sia me, ɖu edzi eye wòɖe zɔ ɖe Yerusalem hã dzi.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 Fia Yoas tsɔ nu siwo ŋu fofoawo, Yuda fiawo abe Yehosafat, Yehoram kple Ahazia ene kɔ kple nu siwo eya ŋutɔ hã wɔ kple sika si nɔ gbedoxɔ la kple fiasã la ƒe nudzraɖoƒewo me la ɖo ɖe Aram fia Hazael. Ale Hazael megaho aʋa ɖe Yerusalem ŋu o.
Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
19 Woŋlɔ Yoas ƒe ŋutinya mamlɛa ɖe, Yuda fiawo ƒe ŋutinyagbalẽ me.
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 Eŋumewo ɖo nugbe ɖe eŋu eye wowui le fiasã la me le Bet Milo, le Sila mɔ dzi.
His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21 Ame siwo wui la woe nye: Yozakad, Simeat ƒe vi kple Yehozabad, Somer ƒe vi. Ame eve siawo nye fia la ƒe dɔla nuteƒewɔlawo hafi! Woɖii ɖe fiawo ƒe ameɖibɔ me le Yerusalem eye via Amazia ɖu fia ɖe eteƒe.
For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
