2 Crônicas 24
1 Joash tinha sete anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e reinou quarenta anos em Jerusalém. O nome de sua mãe era Zíbia, de Berseba.
Joash was seven years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled in Jerusalem for 40 years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba [city].
2 Joás fez o que estava certo aos olhos de Iavé todos os dias de Jehoiada, o sacerdote.
Joash did what pleased Yahweh as long as Jehoiada was [the Supreme] Priest.
3 Jehoiada tomou para ele duas esposas, e se tornou pai de filhos e filhas.
Jehoiada chose two women to be Joash’s wives. And they bore Joash sons and daughters.
4 Depois disso, Joash pretendia restaurar a casa de Yahweh.
Some years later, Joash decided that the temple should be repaired.
5 Ele reuniu os sacerdotes e os levitas, e disse-lhes: “Ide às cidades de Judá, e ajuntai dinheiro para reparar a casa de vosso Deus de todo Israel de ano para ano”. Vejam se agilizam este assunto”. No entanto, os levitas não o fizeram de imediato.
He summoned the priests and other descendants of Levi and said to them, “Go to the towns in Judah and collect from the people the tax money that they are required to pay each year, and use that money to pay for repairing the temple. Do it immediately.” But the descendants of Levi did not do it immediately.
6 O rei chamou o chefe Jeoiada e lhe disse: “Por que você não exigiu dos levitas que trouxessem o imposto de Moisés, servo de Iavé, e da assembléia de Israel, de Judá e de Jerusalém, para a Tenda do Testemunho”?
So the king summoned Jehoiada and said to him, “Why have you not required the descendants of Levi to bring to Jerusalem from various places in Judah the annual/yearly tax that Moses said that the people of Judah must pay, for taking care of the Sacred Tent?”
7 Pois os filhos de Atalia, aquela mulher malvada, tinham destruído a casa de Deus; e também deram aos Baal todas as coisas dedicadas da casa de Iavé.
[The temple needed to be repaired] because the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had entered into the temple [and had wrecked some of the things], and had also used some of the sacred items that were in it for [the worship of] Baal.
8 Então o rei comandou, e eles fizeram uma arca, e a colocaram do lado de fora no portão da casa de Yahweh.
So, obeying what the king commanded, the descendants of Levi made a chest and placed it outside the temple, at one of the entrances.
9 Eles fizeram uma proclamação através de Judá e Jerusalém, para trazer para Iavé o imposto que Moisés, servo de Deus, impôs sobre Israel no deserto.
Then the king sent letters everywhere in Judah, requesting everyone to bring their tax money to the temple, like Moses had required the Israeli people to do [when they were] in the desert.
10 Todos os príncipes e todo o povo se regozijaram, e trouxeram e jogaram no peito, até que o encheram.
All the officials and the other people [agreed, and they] brought their contributions gladly. They put the money into the chest until it was full.
11 Sempre que a arca era levada aos oficiais do rei pela mão dos levitas, e quando eles viam que havia muito dinheiro, o escriba do rei e o oficial do chefe dos sacerdotes vinham e esvaziavam a arca, e a levavam, e a levavam para seu lugar novamente. Assim eles faziam dia após dia, e recolhiam dinheiro em abundância.
Whenever the descendants of Levi brought the chest to the king’s officials, and they saw that there was a lot of money in it, the king’s secretary and the assistant to the [Supreme] Priest would take all the money from the chest, and then put the chest back in its place. They did this frequently, and they collected a huge amount of money.
12 O rei e Jehoiada deram-no àqueles que faziam o trabalho do serviço da casa de Yahweh. Eles contrataram pedreiros e carpinteiros para restaurar a casa de Iavé, e também aqueles que trabalharam ferro e bronze para reparar a casa de Iavé.
The king and Jehoiada gave the money to the men who were supervising the work of repairing the temple. Those men hired stoneworkers and carpenters to repair the temple. They also hired men who worked with iron and bronze to repair things in the temple [that were broken].
13 Assim, os trabalhadores trabalharam, e o trabalho de reparo foi adiante em suas mãos. Eles montaram a casa de Deus como ela foi projetada, e a fortaleceram.
The men who did the repair work worked hard, and the work of repairing the temple progressed. They rebuilt the temple so that it was like it was originally, and they even made it stronger.
14 Quando terminaram, trouxeram o resto do dinheiro diante do rei e Jehoiada, dos quais foram feitos vasos para a casa de Javé, até mesmo vasos para ministrar e oferecer, incluindo colheres e vasos de ouro e prata. Eles ofereciam holocaustos na casa de Iavé continuamente durante todos os dias de Jehoiada.
When they had finished the repair work, they brought to the king and to Jehoiada the money that they had not used for the repairs. That money was used to make things to use for offering the sacrifices that were completely burned [on the altar], and to make bowls and other gold and silver things for the temple. As long as Joash lived, the people continually brought to the temple sacrifices that were to be completely burned on the altar.
15 Mas Jehoiada envelheceu e estava cheio de dias, e morreu. Ele tinha cento e trinta anos de idade quando morreu.
Jehoiada lived to become very old. He died when he was 130 years old.
16 Eles o enterraram na cidade de Davi entre os reis, porque ele tinha feito o bem em Israel, e para com Deus e sua casa.
He was buried where the kings had been buried, in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. [He was buried there] because of the good things that he had done in Judah for God and for God’s temple.
17 Agora após a morte de Jehoiada, os príncipes de Judá vieram e se curvaram diante do rei. Então, o rei os ouviu.
After Jehoiada died, the leaders of Judah went to Joash, bowed in front of him, and persuaded him to do what they wanted.
18 Eles abandonaram a casa de Javé, o Deus de seus pais, e serviram aos bastões de Asherah e aos ídolos, então a ira veio sobre Judá e Jerusalém por esta sua culpa.
So they and the other people stopped worshiping at the temple, and they started worshiping the poles dedicated to [the goddess] Asherah and other idols. Because of their doing those sinful things, God was very angry with the people of Jerusalem and [with the people in other places in] Judah.
19 Mesmo assim ele enviou profetas a eles para trazê-los novamente a Iavé, e eles testemunharam contra eles; mas eles não quiseram ouvir.
Although Yahweh sent prophets to persuade them to return to him, and although the prophets told them about the evil things that they had done, the people would not pay attention.
20 O Espírito de Deus veio sobre Zacarias, filho de Jehoiada, o sacerdote; e ele ficou acima do povo, e disse-lhes: “Deus diz: 'Por que vocês desobedecem aos mandamentos de Javé, para que não possam prosperar? Porque você abandonou Yahweh, ele também o abandonou”.
Then God’s Spirit came upon Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the [Supreme] Priest. He stood up front of the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you disobeying what I, Yahweh, have commanded? You have abandoned me, so I will abandon you.’”
21 Eles conspiraram contra ele, e o apedrejaram com pedras por ordem do rei na corte da casa de Yahweh.
But the people planned to kill Zechariah. And the king joined them in doing it. The people killed Zechariah by throwing stones at him in the temple courtyard.
22 Assim, Joás, o rei, não se lembrava da bondade que Jehoiada, seu pai, havia feito com ele, mas matou seu filho. Quando ele morreu, ele disse: “Que Javé olhe para ele, e o retribua”.
King Joash had forgotten about how Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had been kind to him. That’s why he gave orders for the people to kill Jehoiada’s son Zechariah, who said as he was dying, “I hope that Yahweh will see [what you are doing to me] and punish [you for doing it].”
23 No final do ano, o exército dos sírios se deparou com ele. Eles vieram a Judá e Jerusalém, e destruíram todos os príncipes do povo dentre o povo, e enviaram todos os seus saques ao rei de Damasco.
Near the end of that year (OR, early in the following year), the army of Syria marched to attack [the army of] Joash. They invaded Judah and attacked Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They [seized many valuable things and] sent them to their king in Damascus, [their capital city.]
24 Pois o exército dos sírios veio com uma pequena companhia de homens; e Javé entregou em suas mãos um exército muito grande, porque abandonaram Javé, o Deus de seus pais. Assim, eles executaram o julgamento de Joás.
The army of Syria [that came to Judah] was very small, but Yahweh allowed them to defeat the large army of Judah, because he was punishing Joash and the other people of Judah for having abandoned him, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.
25 Quando se afastaram dele (pois o deixaram gravemente ferido), seus próprios servos conspiraram contra ele pelo sangue dos filhos de Jehoiada, o sacerdote, e o mataram em sua cama, e ele morreu. Eles o enterraram na cidade de Davi, mas não o enterraram nos túmulos dos reis.
Before the battle ended, Joash was severely wounded. Then his officials decided to kill him for murdering Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the [Supreme] Priest. They killed him while he was in his bed. He was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, but they did not bury him in the place where the other kings had been buried.
26 Estes são os que conspiraram contra ele: Zabad, o filho de Shimeath, a amonita, e Jehozabad, o filho de Shimrith, a moabita.
Those who conspired to kill him were Zabad the son of Shimeath, who was a woman from the Ammon [people-group], and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith, who was a woman from the Moab [people-group].
27 Agora, a respeito de seus filhos, da grandeza dos fardos que lhe foram impostos e da reconstrução da casa de Deus, eis que eles estão escritos no comentário do livro dos reis. Amaziah, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.
An account of the things that were done by the sons of Joash and the many prophecies about Joash and what he did to repair the temple are written in the scroll called ‘the History of the Kings [of Judah and Israel]’. Then after Joash died, Amaziah his son became the king.
