2 Reis 12
1 No ano sétimo de Jehu começou a reinar Joás, e quarenta anos reinou em Jerusalém: e era o nome de sua mãe Zibia, de Berseba.
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 E fez Joás o que era reto aos olhos do Senhor todos os dias em que o sacerdote Joiada o dirigia.
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
3 Tão somente os altos se não tiraram: porque ainda o povo sacrificava e queimava incenso nos altos.
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 E disse Joás aos sacerdotes: Todo o dinheiro das coisas santas que se trouxer à casa do Senhor, a saber, o dinheiro daquele que passa o arrolamento, o dinheiro de cada uma das pessoas, segundo a sua avaliação, e todo o dinheiro que trouxer cada um voluntariamente para a casa do Senhor,
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 Os sacerdotes o recebam, cada um dos seus conhecidos; e eles reparem as quebraduras da casa, segundo toda a quebradura que se achar nela.
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 Sucedeu porém que, no ano vinte e três do rei Joás, os sacerdotes ainda não tinham reparado as quebraduras da casa.
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
7 Então o rei Joás chamou o sacerdote Joiada e os mais sacerdotes, e lhes disse: Porque não reparais as quebraduras da casa? Agora, pois, não tomeis mais dinheiro de vossos conhecidos, mas dai-o pelas quebraduras da casa.
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 E consentiram os sacerdotes em não tomarem mais dinheiro do povo, nem em repararem as quebraduras da casa.
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
9 Porem o sacerdote Joiada tomou uma arca, e fez um buraco na tampa; e a pôs ao pé do altar, à mão direita dos que entravam na casa do Senhor: e os sacerdotes que guardavam a entrada da porta metiam ali todo o dinheiro que se trazia à casa do Senhor.
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 Sucedeu pois que, vendo eles que já havia muito dinheiro na arca, o escrivão do rei subia com o sumo sacerdote, e contavam e ensacavam o dinheiro que se achava na casa do Senhor.
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 E o dinheiro, depois de pesado, davam nas mãos dos que faziam a obra, que tinham a seu cargo a casa do Senhor: e eles o distribuiam aos carpinteiros, e aos edificadores que reparavam a casa do Senhor;
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 Como também aos pedreiros e aos cabouqueiros, e para se comprar madeira e pedras de cantaria para repararem as quebraduras da casa do Senhor, e para tudo quanto para a casa se dava para a repararem.
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 Todavia, do dinheiro que se trazia à casa do Senhor não se faziam nem taças de prata, nem garfos, nem bacias, nem trombetas, nem nenhum vaso de ouro ou vaso de prata para a casa do Senhor.
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 Porque o davam aos que faziam a obra, e reparavam com ele a casa do Senhor.
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
15 Também não pediam contas aos homens em cujas mãos entregavam aquele dinheiro, para o dar aos que faziam a obra, porque obravam com fidelidade.
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 Mas o dinheiro de sacrifício por delitos, e o dinheiro por sacrifício de pecados, se não trazia à casa do Senhor; porém era para os sacerdotes.
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 Então subiu Hazael, rei da Síria, e pelejou contra Gath, e a tomou: depois Hazael fez rosto a marchar contra Jerusalém.
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 Porém Joás, rei de Judá, tomou todas as coisas santas que Josaphat, e Jorão, e Achazias, seus pais, reis de Judá, consagraram, como também todo o ouro que se achou nos tesouros da casa do Senhor e na casa do rei: e o mandou a Hazael, rei da Síria; e então se retirou de Jerusalém.
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 Ora o mais dos sucessos de Joás, e tudo quanto fez mais, porventura não está escrito no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?
[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 E levantaram-se os seus servos, e conspiraram contra ele: e feriram a Joás na casa de milo, que desce para 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 Porque Jozacar, filho de Simeath, e Jozabad, filho de Somer, seus servos, o feriram, e morreu, e o sepultaram com seus pais na cidade de David: e Amasias, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.
