열왕기하 12
1 예후의 칠년에 요아스가 위에 올라 예루살렘에서 사십년을 치리하니라 그 모친의 이름은 시비아라 브엘세바 사람이더라
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 요아스가 제사장 여호야다의 교훈을 받을 동안에 여호와 보시기에 정직히 행하였으되
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
3 오직 산당을 제하지 아니하였으므로 백성이 오히려 산당에서 제사하며 분향하였더라
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 요아스가 제사장들에게 이르되 무릇 여호와의 전에 거룩하게 하여 드리는 은 곧 사람의 통용하는 은이나 각 사람의 몸값으로 드리는 은이나 자원하여 여호와의 전에 드리는 모든 은을
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 제사장들이 각각 아는 자에게서 받아 들여서 전의 어느 곳이든지 퇴락한 것을 보거든 그것으로 수리하라 하였더니
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 요아스왕 이십 삼년에 이르도록 제사장들이 오히려 전의 퇴락한데를 수리하지 아니하였는지라
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
7 요아스왕이 대제사장 여호야다와 제사장들을 불러서 이르되 너희가 어찌하여 전의 퇴락한 데를 수리하지 아니하였느냐 이제부터는 너희 아는 사람에게서 은을 받지 말고 저희로 전 퇴락한 데를 위하여 드리게 하라
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 제사장들이 다시는 백성에게 은을 받지도 아니하고 전 퇴락한 것을 수리하지도 아니하기로 응락하니라
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
9 제사장 여호야다가 한 궤를 취하여 그 뚜껑에 구멍을 뚫어 여호와의 전문 어귀 우편 곧 단 옆에 두매 무릇 여호와의 전에 가져 오는 은을 다 문을 지키는 제사장들이 그 궤에 넣더라
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 이에 그 궤 가운데 은이 많은 것을 보면 왕의 서기와 대제사장 이 올라와서 여호와의 전에 있는대로 그 은을 계수하여 봉하고
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 그 달아본 은을 일하는 자 곧 여호와의 전을 맡은 자의 손에 붙이면 저희는 또 여호와의 전을 수리하는 목수와 건축하는 자들에게 주고
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 또 미장이와 석수에게 주고 또 여호와의 전 퇴락한 데를 수리할 재목과 다듬은 돌을 사게 하며 그 전을 수리할 모든 물건을 위하여 쓰게 하였으되
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 여호와의 전에 드린 그 은으로 그 전의 은대접이나 불집게나 주발이나 나팔이나 아무 금그릇이나 은그릇을 만들지 아니하고
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 오직 그 은을 일하는 자에게 주어 그것으로 여호와의 전을 수리하게 하였으며
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
15 또 그 은을 받아 일군에게 주는 사람들과 회계하지 아니하였으니 이는 성실히 일을 하였음이라
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 속건제의 은과 속죄제의 은은 여호와의 전에 드리지 아니하고 제사장에게 돌렸더라
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 때에 아람 왕 하사엘이 올라와서 가드를 쳐서 취하고 예루살렘을 향하여 올라오고자 한고로
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 유다 왕 요아스가 그 열조 유다 왕 여호사밧과 여호람과 아하시야가 구별하여 드린 모든 성물과 자기가 구별하여 드린 성물과 여호와의 전 곳간과 왕궁에 있는 금을 다 취하여 아람 왕 하사엘에게 보내었더니 하사엘이 예루살렘에서 떠나갔더라
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 요아스의 남은 사적과 그 모든 행한 것은 유다 왕 역대지략에 기록되지 아니하였느냐
[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 요아스의 신복들이 일어나서 모반하여 실라로 내려가는 길 가의 밀로궁에서 저를 죽였고
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 저를 쳐서 죽인 신복은 시므앗의 아들 요사갈과 소멜의 아들 여호사바드이었더라 저는 다윗 성에 그 열조와 함께 장사되고 그 아들 아마샤가 대신하여 왕이 되니라
