Luo Chronicle 24
1 Joash el mutawauk in tokosra fin acn Judah ke el yac itkosr, ac el leum in Jerusalem ke yac angngaul. Nina kial ah pa Zibiah, sie mutan Beersheba.
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2 Joash el oru mwe insewowo nu sin LEUM GOD in pacl Jehoiada, mwet tol, el moul.
Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3 Jehoiada el sulela mutan luo kial Tokosra Joash, ac eltal oswela wen ac acn nu sel.
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4 Tukun el tokosrala ke kutu yac, Joash el nunkauk in akwoyela Tempul.
After this, Joash intended to restore the LORD’s house.
5 El sap mwet tol ac mwet Levi in som nu in siti nukewa lun Judah, ac orani lupan mani sin mwet uh ma ac fal in akwoyela acn ma musalla ke Tempul ke yac sac. El fahk mu elos in oru in sa, tuh pa mwet Levi inge pahtlac.
He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.
6 Na el pangnolma Jehoiada, mwet kol lalos, ac multikin nu sel ac fahk, “Efu ku kom tia taran mwet Levi ingan in orani mani in tax sin mwet Judah ac Jerusalem, in oana ma Moses, mwet kulansap lun LEUM GOD, el tuh oakiya mwet uh in moli in sang kasru Lohm Nuknuk Mutal sin LEUM GOD
The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
7 Mwet ma welulla Athaliah, mutan koluk sac, elos tuh aktaekyala Tempul, ac orekmakin kutu ma mutal we nu ke alu lalos nu sin Baal.
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the LORD’s house to the Baals.
8 Tokosra el sap mwet Levi in orala sie box in sang, ac filiya ke mutunoa in Tempul.
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the LORD’s house.
9 Elos supwalik kas nu in acn nukewa in Jerusalem ac Judah, tuh kais sie mwet in use tax lalos, oana ma Moses, mwet kulansap lun LEUM GOD, el tuh mutawauk oru yen mwesis.
They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
10 Mwet uh, oayapa mwet kol lalos, elos insewowo ke ma se inge, ac elos usani tax lalos ac nwakla box sac.
All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
11 Len nukewa mwet Levi elos ac usla box sac nu sin mwet roso lun tokosra su liyaung box sac. Fin sessesla, na mwet sim lun tokosra ac sie mwet aolyen mwet Tol Fulat ac usla ac okoala mani uh, na sifil folokunla box sac nu yen oan we uh. Ouinge lupan mani na yohk se ac orekeni.
Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
12 Tokosra ac Jehoiada ac sang mani inge nu sin mwet kol orekma ke Tempul, ac elos ac sang moli mwet tufahl eot, mwet kamtu, ac mwet orekma pac ke osra, tuh elos in sang orala kutena acn musalla ke Tempul.
The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the LORD’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the LORD’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the LORD’s house.
13 Mwet nukewa moniyuk na in orekma, ac elos akwoyela Tempul arulana ku, oana ke tufahna orekla ah.
So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.
14 Ke pacl se tari orekma sac, ma lula ke gold ac silver itukyang nu sin tokosra ac Jehoiada, ac eltal sang ma inge orala ahlu ku kutu pac mwe orekmak ma ac eneneyuk nu ke Tempul. Ke lusen pacl Jehoiada el moul, kisa uh orek in Tempul fal nu ke pacl la.
When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the LORD’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
15 Tukun el arulana matu ac sun yac siofok tolngoul, na el misa.
But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
16 Elos piknilya inkulyuk lun mwet leum in Siti sel David, in asmakin orekma wo el oru nu sin mwet Israel, nu sin God, ac nu ke Tempul.
They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
17 Tusruktu tukunna Jehoiada el misa, mwet kol lun Judah elos kifasulla Tokosra Joash elan wela pwapa lalos uh.
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
18 Ouinge mwet uh tia sifil alu in Tempul lun LEUM GOD, su God lun papa tumalos, a elos mutawauk alu nu ke ma sruloala kacl god mutan Asherah ac ma sruloala pac saya. Mwatalos ke ma koluk lalos inge pa pwanang kasrkusrak lun LEUM GOD tuku nu fin acn Judah ac Jerusalem.
They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
19 LEUM GOD El supwala mwet palu in akesmakinyalos elos in forla nu sel, a mwet uh srunga lohng.
Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
20 Na ngun lun God tuku nu facl Zechariah, wen natul Jehoiada mwet tol. El tu yen mwet uh ku in liyal we, ac wowoyak ac fahk, “LEUM GOD El siyuk lah efu ku kowos tia akos ma El sapkin, ac kowos use mwe ongoiya nu fowos sifacna! Kowos sisella, na pa El siskowosla!”
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.’”
21 Tokosra Joash el weak mwet uh in lainul Zechariah, ac ke sap lal tokosra, mwet uh tanglal Zechariah ke nien tukeni inkul lun Tempul.
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.
22 Tokosra el mulkunla orekma kulang ma Jehoiada, papa tumal Zechariah, el tuh oru nu sel, ac el sap anwuki Zechariah. Meet liki na Zechariah el ac misa, el wola ac fahk, “Lela LEUM GOD Elan liye ma kom oru an, ac kalyei kom!”
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May the LORD look at it, and repay it.”
23 Ke apkuran in safla yac sac, mwet mweun lun Syria mweuni acn Judah ac Jerusalem. Elos uniya mwet kol nukewa, ac usla ma wap puspis ke elos folokla nu Damascus.
At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.
24 Mwet mweun lun Syria tia pus, tusruktu LEUM GOD El sang kutangla nu selos fin mwet mweun pus lun Judah, mweyen mwet Judah elos ngetla liki LEUM GOD lun papa tumalos. Pa inge kaiyuk ma orek nu sel Tokosra Joash.
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
25 El arulana kinetneta, ac ke mwet lokoalok lal som tari, na luo sin mwet pwapa lal sifacna eltal orek pwapa sulallal, ac unilya fin mwe oan kial, in aol ke el tuh akmuseya wen natul Jehoiada, mwet tol. Pukpuki el in Siti sel David, tusruktu tia ke inkulyuk lun mwet leum.
When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
26 Mwet ma pwapa sulal ac unilya inge pa Zabad, wen nutin mutan Ammon se pangpang Shimeath, ac Jehozabad, wen nutin mutan Moab se pangpang Shimrith.
These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
27 Sramsram ke mukul natul Joash, ac kas in palu lainul, oayapa ma simla ke orekma lal in akwoyela Tempul, oasr in [Book in Akkalemye Koanon Book In Tokosra]. Amaziah, wen natul, pa aolul in tokosra.
Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
