2 Kongebok 12
1 I Jehus syvende år blev Joas konge, og han regjerte i Jerusalem i firti år; hans mor hette Sibja og var fra Be'erseba.
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 Joas gjorde hvad rett var i Herrens øine, hele tiden, så lenge presten Jojada veiledet ham.
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
3 Dog blev offerhaugene ikke nedlagt; folket blev ved å ofre og brenne røkelse på haugene.
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 Joas sa til prestene: Alle penger som kommer inn til Herrens hus som hellige gaver, både pengene fra dem som kommer med i manntallet, og utløsnings-pengene for folk efter det verd som fastsettes for hver enkelt, og alle de penger som nogen av fri vilje kommer med til Herrens hus,
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 dem skal prestene ta imot, hver av sine kjenninger, og de skal bøte husets brøst overalt hvor det finnes nogen brøst.
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 Men i kong Joas' tre og tyvende år hadde prestene ennu ikke bøtt husets brøst.
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
7 Da kalte kong Joas presten Jojada og prestene til sig og sa til dem: Hvorfor bøter I ikke husets brøst? Nu skal I ikke lenger ta imot penger av eders kjenninger, men gi dem fra eder til å bøte husets brøst med.
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 Og prestene samtykte i at de ikke skulde ta imot penger av folket og heller ikke gi sig av med å bøte husets brøst.
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
9 Så tok presten Jojada en kiste og boret et hull i dens lokk og satte den ved alteret på høire side, der hvor folk går inn i Herrens hus, og i den la prestene som hadde vakt ved dørtreskelen, alle de penger som kom inn til Herrens hus.
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 Og når de så at det var mange penger i kisten, gikk kongens skriver og ypperstepresten dit op og knyttet dem inn og tellet de penger som fantes i Herrens hus.
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 Så overgav de pengene som de hadde veid, til dem som forestod arbeidet og hadde tilsyn med Herrens hus; og de gav dem igjen ut til tømmermennene og bygningsmennene som arbeidet på Herrens hus,
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 og til murerne og stenhuggerne og likeså til innkjøp av tre og hugne stener for å bøte Herrens huses brøst og i det hele til alt som blev gitt ut for å sette huset i stand.
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 Men det blev ikke gjort sølvfat eller kniver eller skåler til å sprenge blod med eller trompeter eller noget slags kar av gull eller sølv til Herrens hus for de penger som kom inn til Herrens hus,
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 men de overgav dem til dem som forestod arbeidet, og de brukte dem til å sette Herrens hus i stand.
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
15 Og det blev ikke holdt regnskap med de menn til hvem pengene blev overgitt forat de skulde gi dem til dem som utførte arbeidet; for de fór redelig frem.
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 Men skyldoffer- og syndofferpengene kom ikke inn til Herrens hus; de tilfalt prestene.
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 På den tid drog Syrias konge Hasael op og stred mot Gat og inntok det; derefter satte han sig fore å dra op mot Jerusalem.
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 Da tok Judas konge Joas alle de hellige ting som hans fedre Josafat og Joram og Akasja, Judas konger, hadde helliget, og dem han selv hadde helliget, og alt det gull som fantes i skattkammerne i Herrens hus og i kongens hus, og sendte det til Syrias konge Hasael. Da drog han bort og gikk ikke mot Jerusalem.
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 Hvad som ellers er å fortelle om Joas og om alt det han gjorde, er opskrevet i Judas kongers krønike.
[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 Hans tjenere reiste sig og fikk i stand en sammensvergelse og drepte Joas i Millo-huset, som går ned til Silla;
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 det var Josakar, Sim'ats sønn, og Josabad, Somers sønn, hans tjenere, som drepte ham. Da han var død, begravde de ham hos hans fedre i Davids stad; og hans sønn Amasja blev konge i hans sted.
