2 Ndị Eze 12
1 Nʼafọ nke asaa, nke ọchịchị Jehu nʼIzrel, ka Joash malitere ịbụ eze na Juda. Iri afọ anọ ka ọ chịrị dịka eze na Jerusalem. Aha nne ya bụ Zibịa onye Bịasheba.
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].
2 Joash mere ihe ziri ezi nʼanya Onyenwe anyị ụbọchị niile nke Jehoiada onye nchụaja ziri ya ihe.
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
3 Ma naanị na o wezugaghị ebe ịchụ aja niile dị nʼugwu. Ndị Juda nọgidere na-achụ aja dị iche iche nʼebe ahụ, na-esurekwa ihe nsure ọkụ na-esi isi ụtọ.
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].
4 Joash sịrị ndị nchụaja, “Nakọtaanụ ego niile a na-ewebata dịka onyinye dị nsọ nʼụlọnsọ ukwu Onyenwe anyị, ya bụ, ego a na-anakọta nʼoge ịgụ mmadụ ọnụ, na ego e webatara maka imezu nkwa ndị mmadụ kwere, na ego e webatara nʼụlọnsọ ukwu dịka onyinye afọ ofufe.
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.
5 Ka onye nchụaja ọbụla site nʼaka otu nʼime ndị na-eche ego nara ego, a ga-eji mezie ihe ọbụla a chọpụtara na o mebiri nʼụlọnsọ ukwu ahụ.”
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.”
6 Ma nʼafọ nke iri abụọ na atọ nke ọchịchị eze Joash, ọ chọpụtara na ndị nchụaja ahụ emezibeghị ihe mebiri nʼụlọnsọ.
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
7 Ya mere, eze Joash kpọrọ Jehoiada, onye nchụaja, kpọkwaa ndị nchụaja ndị ọzọ jụọ ha, “Gịnị mere unu emezibeghị ụlọnsọ a? Site ugbu a gaa nʼihu, unu esitekwala nʼaka ndị na-eche ego anara ego ọzọ, kama, nyefeenụ ya maka iji dozie ụlọnsọ ukwu ahụ.”
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!”
8 Ndị nchụaja ahụ kwenyere sị, “Anyị agaghị esitekwa nʼaka ndị mmadụ nara ego ọbụla. Otu a kwa, anyị agaghị emezikwa ụlọnsọ ukwu a nʼonwe anyị.”
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
9 Mgbe ahụ, Jehoiada wetara otu igbe mepuo oghere nʼelu ya, debe ya nʼakụkụ ebe ịchụ aja, nʼaka nri dịka mmadụ na-abata nʼụlọnsọ ukwu Onyenwe anyị. Ndị nchụaja niile na-eche nche nʼọnụ ụzọ ụlọnsọ ahụ na-etinye ego niile e webatara nʼụlọnsọ Onyenwe anyị nʼime igbe ahụ.
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.
10 Mgbe ọbụla ha hụrụ na igbe ego ahụ ejupụtala nʼego, onye ode akwụkwọ ụlọeze na onyeisi nchụaja na-abịa, gụọ ego ahụ e webatara nʼụlọnsọ Onyenwe anyị, tinye ha nʼakpa.
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.
11 Ha na-ewere ego ahụ a gụrụ ọnụ, nyefee nʼaka ndị ikom ahọpụtara maka ilekọta ndị ọrụ na-emezi ụlọ Onyenwe anyị. Ndị ahụ na-eji ya kwụọ ndị ọkwa ǹka osisi na ndị na-ewu ụlọ,
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,
12 na ndị na-edo nkume, na ndị na-awa nkume ụgwọ. Ọ bụ sitekwa nʼego ahụ ka a na-azụta osisi na nkume a wara awa iji dozie ụlọnsọ Onyenwe anyị, na ịkwụ ụgwọ ihe ndị ọzọ e ji emezi ihe niile ekwesiri imezi nʼụlọnsọ ukwu ahụ.
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.
13 E jikwaghị ego ahụ e webatara nʼụlọnsọ kpụta efere ọlaọcha, ihe e ji akpakepụ ọkụ, efere ịkwọsa mmiri, opi maọbụ ihe ndị ọzọ nke e ji ọlaedo maọbụ ọlaọcha kpụọ maka ụlọnsọ ukwu nke Onyenwe anyị.
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.
14 Ọ bụ ndị na-eje ozi, ndị ji ya rụzie ụlọnsọ ukwu Onyenwe anyị ka e nyere ya.
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
15 O nweghị onye a sịrị ka ọ gụzie otu e si jiri ego ahụ rụọ ọrụ, bụ ndị e nyere ego ahụ maka ịkwụ ndị ọrụ ụgwọ, nʼihi na ha bụ ndị kwesiri ntụkwasị obi.
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.
16 E webataghị ego niile sitere nʼaja ikpe ọmụma nakwa aja mmehie nʼime ụlọnsọ ukwuu Onyenwe anyị. Ọ bụ ndị nchụaja nwe nke ahụ.
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.
17 Nʼoge ahụ, Hazael eze Aram, gara buso Gat agha, lụgbuo ya, dọta ya nʼagha. Emesịa, o chere ihu nʼụzọ Jerusalem imegide ya.
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.
18 Ma Joash, bụ eze Juda, chịkọtara ihe niile ahụ bụ nke Jehoshafat, Jehoram na Ahazaya nna ya, ndị bụ eze Juda doro nsọ nye Chineke, chịrịkwa onyinye nke ya onwe ya dokwara nsọ, na ọlaedo niile, na akụ niile e nwere ike ịchọta nʼụlọnsọ Onyenwe anyị, na nke dị nʼụlọeze, zigara Hazael, bụ eze Aram. Nʼihi ihe ndị a, ọ lara, hapụ ibuso Jerusalem agha.
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.
19 Akụkọ gbasara ọchịchị eze Joash, na ihe niile o mere, e deghị ha nʼakwụkwọ akụkọ ihe ndị eze Juda niile mere nʼoge ha.
[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’.
20 Ndị ozi ya gbara izu ọjọọ megide Joash, gbukwaa ya na Bet Milo, nʼụzọ e si aga Sila.
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.
21 Ndịisi ozi ahụ gburu ya bụ Jozabad nwa Shimeat, na Jehozabad nwa Shomea. Ọ nwụrụ, e lie ya na ndị nna nna ya ha nʼobodo Devid. Amazaya nwa ya, ghọrọ eze nʼọnọdụ ya.
