2 Reyes 12

1 Joás comenzó a reinar en el año séptimo de Jehú, y reinó 40 años en Jerusalén. El nombre de su madre fue Sibia, de Beerseba.

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 Joás hizo lo recto ante Yavé todos los días en los cuales el sacerdote Joiada lo instruía.

All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.

3 Pero no se quitaron los lugares altos, porque el pueblo aún sacrificaba y quemaba incienso en los lugares 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 Y Joás dijo a los sacerdotes: Todo el dinero de las cosas sagradas que es traído a la Casa de Yavé, tanto el dinero del rescate de cada persona, según está previsto, como el dinero que cada uno trae de su voluntad a la Casa de Yavé,

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 que los sacerdotes lo reciban, cada uno de su administrador, y reparen ellos los daños de la Casa dondequiera que se halle cualquier daño.

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 Pero sucedió que el año 23 del rey Joás, los sacerdotes aún no habían reparado los daños del Templo.

But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.

7 Entonces el rey Joás llamó al sacerdote Joiada y a los demás sacerdotes y les preguntó: ¿Por qué aún no repararon los daños del Templo? Ahora, pues, no tomen el dinero de sus administradores, sino entréguenlo para reparar los daños del Templo.

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 Los sacerdotes consintieron en no tomar más dinero del pueblo, ni reparar los daños del Templo.

The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.

9 Pero el sumo sacerdote Joiada tomó un cofre, le hizo una abertura en su tapa y lo puso junto al altar, a la derecha, según se entra en la Casa de Yavé. Los sacerdotes que cuidaban la puerta depositaban allí todo el dinero que era llevado a la Casa de Yavé.

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 Sucedió que cuando veían que había mucho dinero en el cofre, el escriba del rey y el sumo sacerdote iban y lo contaban. Lo colocaban en las bolsas para dinero que había en el Templo de Yavé.

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 Entregaban el dinero que contaban en las manos de los que hacían la obra en el Templo de Yavé, los cuales pagaban a los carpinteros y constructores que reparaban la Casa de Yavé,

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 a los albañiles y canteros para comprar madera y piedra tallada para reparar las averías de la Casa de Yavé, y para todo lo que se hacía a fin de reparar la Casa.

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 Pero con el dinero que se llevaba a la Casa de Yavé, no hacían tazas de plata, ni despabiladeras, ni tazones, ni trompetas, ni algún utensilio de oro, ni de plata,

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 lo entregaban a los que hacían la obra, y reparaban con él el Templo de Yavé.

All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.

15 Además, no exigían cuentas a los hombres en cuyas manos se entregaba el dinero para hacer los trabajos, pues actuaban con honradez.

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 El dinero de las ofrendas por la culpa y el dinero de las ofrendas por el pecado no ingresaba en la Casa de Yavé, porque era para los 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 En aquel tiempo Hazael, rey de Siria, subió y luchó contra Gat, y la conquistó. Y Hazael dispuso subir contra Jerusalén.

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 Pero Joás, rey de Judá, tomó todos los objetos consagrados que ofrecieron sus antepasados: Josafat, Joram y Ocozías, reyes de Judá, y sus propios objetos consagrados, y todo el oro que había en los tesoros de la Casa de Yavé y en la casa real. Y los envió a Hazael, rey de Siria, quien se retiró de Jerusalén.

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 Todos los hechos de Joás, ¿no están escritos en el rollo de las Crónicas de los reyes 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 Se levantaron sus esclavos y tramaron una conspiración, y mataron a Joás en la casa de Milo, en el camino que baja a Silo,

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 pues sus esclavos Josacar, hijo de Simeat, y Jozabad, hijo de Somer, lo hirieron y murió. Lo sepultaron con sus antepasados en la Ciudad de David, y reinó en su lugar su hijo Amasías.