Ii Paralipomenon 24
1 Septem annorum erat Ioas cum regnare coepisset: et quadraginta annis regnavit in Ierusalem, nomen matris eius Sebia de Bersabee.
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 Fecitque quod bonum est coram Domino cunctis diebus Ioiadae sacerdotis.
Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3 Accepit autem ei Ioiada uxores duas, e quibus genuit filios et filias.
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4 Post quae placuit Ioas ut instauraret domum Domini.
After this, Joash intended to restore the LORD’s house.
5 Congregavitque Sacerdotes, et Levitas, et dixit eis: Egredimini ad civitates Iuda, et colligite de universo Israel pecuniam ad sartatecta templi Dei nostri, per singulos annos, festinatoque hoc facite: porro Levitae egere negligentius.
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 Vocavitque rex Ioiadam principem, et dixit ei: Quare tibi non fuit curae, ut cogeres Levitas inferre de Iuda et de Ierusalem pecuniam, quae constituta est a Moyse servo Domini, ut inferret eam omnis multitudo Israel in tabernaculum testimonii?
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 Athalia enim impiissima, et filii eius destruxerunt domum Dei, et de universis, quae sanctificata fuerant in templo Domini, ornaverunt fanum Baalim.
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 Praecepit ergo rex, et fecerunt arcam: posueruntque eam iuxta portam domus Domini forinsecus.
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the LORD’s house.
9 Et praedicatum est in Iuda et Ierusalem ut deferrent singuli pretium Domino, quod constituit Moyses servus Dei super omnem Israel in deserto.
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 Laetatique sunt cuncti principes, et omnis populus: et ingressi contulerunt in arcam Domini, atque miserunt ita ut impleretur.
All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
11 Cumque tempus esset ut deferrent arcam coram rege per manus Levitarum (videbant enim multam pecuniam) ingrediebatur scriba regis, et quem primus sacerdos constituerat: effundebantque pecuniam quae erat in arca: porro arcam reportabant ad locum suum: sicque faciebant per singulos dies, et congregata est infinita pecunia.
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 Quam dederunt rex et Ioiada his, qui praeerant operibus domus Domini: at illi conducebant ex ea caesores lapidum, et artifices operum singulorum ut instaurarent domum Domini: fabros quoque ferri et aeris, ut quod cadere coeperat, fulciretur.
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 Egeruntque hi qui operabantur industrie, et obducebatur parietum cicatrix per manus eorum, ac suscitaverunt domum Domini in statum pristinum, et firmiter eam stare fecerunt.
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 Cumque complessent omnia opera, detulerunt coram rege, et Ioiada reliquam partem pecuniae: de qua facta sunt vasa templi in ministerium, et ad holocausta, phialae quoque, et cetera vasa aurea et argentea: offerebantur holocausta in domo Domini iugiter cunctis diebus Ioiadae.
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 Senuit autem Ioiada plenus dierum, et mortuus est cum esset centum triginta annorum.
But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred and thirty years old when he died.
16 sepelieruntque eum in civitate David cum regibus, eo quod fecisset bonum cum Israel, et cum domo eius.
They buried him in David’s city amongst the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and towards God and his house.
17 Postquam autem obiit Ioiada, ingressi sunt principes Iuda, et adoraverunt regem, qui delinitus obsequiis eorum, acquievit eis.
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
18 Et dereliquerunt templum Domini Dei patrum suorum, servieruntque lucis et sculptilibus, et facta est ira contra Iuda, et Ierusalem propter hoc peccatum.
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 Mittebatque eis prophetas ut reverterentur ad Dominum, quos protestantes, illi audire nolebant.
Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
20 Spiritus itaque Dei induit Zachariam filium Ioiadae sacerdotem, et stetit in conspectu populi, et dixit eis: Haec dicit Dominus Deus: Quare transgredimini praeceptum Domini, quod vobis non proderit, et dereliquistis Dominum ut derelinqueret vos?
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 Qui congregati adversus eum, miserunt lapides iuxta regis imperium in atrio domus Domini.
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.
22 Et non est recordatus Ioas rex misericordiae, quam fecerat Ioiada pater illius secum, sed interfecit filium eius. Qui cum moreretur, ait: Videat Dominus, et requirat.
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 Cumque evolutus esset annus, ascendit contra eum exercitus Syriae: venitque in Iuda et Ierusalem, et interfecit cunctos principes populi, atque universam praedam miserunt regi in Damascum.
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 amongst the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.
24 Et certe cum permodicus venisset numerus Syrorum, tradidit Dominus in manibus eorum infinitam multitudinem, eo quod dereliquissent Dominum Deum patrum suorum: in Ioas quoque ignominiosa exercuere iudicia.
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 judgement on Joash.
25 Et abeuntes dimiserunt eum in languoribus magnis: surrexerunt autem contra eum servi sui in ultionem sanguinis filii Ioiadae sacerdotis, et occiderunt eum in lectulo suo, et mortuus est: sepelieruntque eum in Civitate David, sed non in sepulchris regum.
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 Insidiati vero sunt ei Zabad filius Semmaath Ammanitidis, et Iozabad filius Semarith Moabitidis.
These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
27 Porro filii eius, ac summa pecuniae, quae adunata fuerat sub eo, et instauratio domus Dei scripta sunt diligentius in Libro regum: regnavit autem Amasias filius eius pro eo.
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.
