2 Raja-raja 12
1 Dalam tahun ketujuh zaman Yehu, Yoas menjadi raja dan empat puluh tahun lamanya ia memerintah di Yerusalem. Nama ibunya ialah Zibya, dari Bersyeba.
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 Yoas melakukan apa yang benar di mata TUHAN seumur hidupnya, selama imam Yoyada mengajar dia.
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
3 Namun demikian, bukit-bukit pengorbanan tidaklah dijauhkan. Bangsa itu masih mempersembahkan dan membakar korban di bukit-bukit itu.
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 Berkatalah Yoas kepada para imam: "Segala uang yang dibawa ke dalam rumah TUHAN sebagai persembahan kudus, yakni uang masuk untuk pencatatan jiwa, uang tebusan jiwa menurut penilaian yang berlaku untuk seseorang, dan segala uang yang dibawa ke dalam rumah TUHAN karena dorongan hati seseorang,
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 baiklah para imam sendiri menerimanya, masing-masing dari kenalannya, dan memakainya untuk memperbaiki yang rusak pada rumah itu, di mana saja terdapat kerusakan."
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 Tetapi dalam tahun kedua puluh tiga zaman raja Yoas para imam belum juga memperbaiki kerusakan rumah itu.
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
7 Sebab itu raja Yoas memanggil imam Yoyada, dan imam-imam lain serta berkata kepada mereka: "Mengapa kamu tidak perbaiki kerusakan rumah itu? Maka sekarang, tidak boleh lagi kamu menerima uang dari kenalan-kenalanmu, tetapi serahkanlah itu untuk memperbaiki kerusakan rumah itu."
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 Lalu setujulah para imam itu untuk tidak menerima uang dari rakyat, tetapi merekapun tidak usah lagi memperbaiki kerusakan rumah itu.
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
9 Kemudian imam Yoyada mengambil sebuah peti, membuat lobang pada tutupnya dan menaruhnya di samping mezbah, di sebelah kanan apabila orang masuk ke rumah TUHAN. Para imam penjaga pintu menaruh ke dalamnya segala uang yang dibawa orang ke dalam rumah TUHAN.
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 Dan apabila dilihat mereka bahwa sudah banyak uang dalam peti itu, maka datanglah panitera raja beserta imam besar, lalu membungkus dan menghitung uang yang terdapat dalam rumah TUHAN itu.
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 Mereka menyerahkan jumlah uang yang ditentukan ke tangan para pekerja yang diangkat mengawasi rumah TUHAN, dan mereka ini membayarkannya kepada tukang-tukang kayu, kepada tukang-tukang bangunan yang mengerjakan rumah TUHAN itu,
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 kepada tukang-tukang tembok dan kepada tukang-tukang pemahat batu; mereka memakainya juga bagi pembelian kayu dan batu pahat untuk memperbaiki rumah TUHAN dan bagi segala pengeluaran untuk memperbaiki rumah itu.
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 Tetapi untuk rumah TUHAN tidaklah dibuat pasu perak, pisau, bokor penyiraman, nafiri, atau sesuatu perkakas emas dan perak dari uang yang telah dibawa ke dalam rumah TUHAN itu.
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 Melainkan mereka menyerahkannya kepada para pekerja, supaya dipakai memperbaiki rumah TUHAN.
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
15 Mereka kemudian tidak mengadakan perhitungan dengan orang-orang yang diserahi uang itu untuk memberikannya kepada tukang-tukang, sebab mereka bekerja dengan jujur.
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 Tetapi uang korban penebus salah dan uang korban penghapus dosa tidaklah dibawa ke dalam rumah TUHAN; semuanya itu adalah bagian para imam.
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 Pada waktu itu majulah Hazael, raja Aram, diperanginyalah Gat dan direbutnya. Kemudian Hazael berniat menyerang Yerusalem,
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 tetapi Yoas, raja Yehuda, mengambil segala persembahan kudus yang telah dikuduskan oleh para leluhurnya yakni Yosafat, Yoram dan Ahazia, raja-raja Yehuda, dan persembahan-persembahan kudusnya sendiri, juga segala emas yang terdapat dalam perbendaharaan rumah TUHAN dan istana raja. Dikirimkannyalah semuanya itu kepada Hazael, raja Aram, maka tidak jadi lagi Hazael menyerang Yerusalem.
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 Selebihnya dari riwayat Yoas dan segala yang dilakukannya, bukankah semuanya itu tertulis dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Yehuda?
[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 Pegawai-pegawainya bangkit mengadakan persepakatan, lalu membunuh Yoas di rumah Milo yang letaknya di penurunan ke 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 Yozakar, anak Simeat, dan Yozabad, anak Somer, ialah pegawai-pegawainya yang membunuh dia. Lalu ia dikuburkan di samping nenek moyangnya di kota Daud, maka Amazia, anaknya, menjadi raja menggantikan dia.
