2 Reyes 12

1 En el séptimo año de Jehú comenzó a reinar Joas, y reinó cuarenta años en Jerusalem. El nombre de su madre fue Sebia de Beer-seba.

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 hizo Joas lo que era recto en ojos de Jehová todo el tiempo que le gobernó el sacerdote Joiada.

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

3 Con todo eso los altos no se quitaron, que aun el pueblo sacrificaba, y quemaba perfumes en los 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 Joas dijo a los sacerdotes: Todo el dinero de las santificaciones, que se suele traer en la casa de Jehová, el dinero de los que pasan en cuenta, el dinero de las almas, cada uno según su precio, y todo dinero que cada uno mete de su libertad en la casa de Jehová:

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 Los sacerdotes lo reciban, cada uno de sus familiares, los cuales reparen los portillos del templo, donde quiera que se hallare abertura.

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 El año veinte y tres del rey Joas los sacerdotes no habían aun reparado las aberturas del templo.

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

7 Y llamando el rey Joas al pontífice Joiada, y a los sacerdotes, díjoles: ¿Porqué no reparáis las aberturas del templo? Ahora pues no toméis más el dinero de vuestros familiares, sino dádlo para las aberturas 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 Y los sacerdotes consintieron en no tomar más dinero del pueblo, ni tener cargo de reparar las aberturas del templo.

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

9 Entonces el pontífice Joiada tomó un arca, e hízole en la tapa un agujero, y púsola junto al altar, a la mano derecha, a la entrada del templo de Jehová: y los sacerdotes que guardaban la puerta, ponían allí todo el dinero, que se metía en la casa de Jehová.

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 Y cuando veían que había mucho dinero en el arca, venía el notario del rey, y el gran sacerdote, y contaban el dinero que hallaban en el templo de Jehová, y lo guardaban;

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 Y daban el dinero aparejado en la mano de los que hacían la obra, y de los que tenían el cargo de la casa de Jehová, y ellos lo expendían con los carpinteros y maestros, que reparaban la casa de Jehová:

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 Y con los albañiles y canteros; para comprar la madera, y piedra de cantería, para reparar las aberturas de la casa de Jehová, y en todo lo que se gastaba en la casa para repararla.

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 Mas de aquel dinero que se traía a la casa de Jehová, no se hacían tazas de plata, ni salterios, ni lebrillos, ni trompetas: ni ningún otro vaso de oro, ni de plata, se hacía para el templo de Jehová.

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 daban a los que hacían la obra, y con él reparaban la casa de Jehová.

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

15 Ni se tomaba cuenta a los varones en cuyas manos el dinero era entregado, para que ellos lo diesen a los que hacían la obra: porque ellos lo hacían fielmente.

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 el dinero por el delito, y el dinero por los pecados, no se metía en la casa de Jehová, porque era de 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 Entonces subió Hazael rey de Siria, y peleó contra Get, y la tomó: y puso Hazael su rostro para subir contra 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 Y tomó Joas rey de Judá todas las ofrendas que había dedicado Josafat, y Joram, y Ocozías, sus padres, reyes de Judá, y las que él había dedicado, y todo el oro, que se halló en los tesoros de la casa de Jehová, y en la casa del rey, y enviólo a Hazael rey de Siria, y él se partió de 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 Lo demás de los hechos de Joas, y todas las cosas que hizo, ¿no está escrito en el libro 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 Y levantáronse sus siervos, y conspiraron en conjuración, e hirieron a Joas en la casa de Mello, descendiendo él a Sella.

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 Josacar, hijo de Semaat, y Jozabad, hijo de Somer, sus siervos, le hirieron, y murió, y le sepultaron con sus padres en la ciudad de David, y reinó en su lugar Amasías su hijo.