1 Joas was sewe jaar oud toe hy koning geword het, en hy het veertig jaar in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was Sibja, uit Bers,ba.
2 En Joas het gedoen wat reg was in die oë van die HERE, al die dae van die priester Jojada.
3 En Jojada het vir hom twee vroue geneem, en hy het die vader geword van seuns en dogters.
4 En daarna het Joas hom voorgeneem om die huis van die HERE te herstel.
5 Daarom het hy die priesters en die Leviete versamel en aan hulle gesê: Gaan uit na die stede van Juda en versamel geld uit die hele Israel om van jaar tot jaar die huis van julle God te herstel; en julle moet gou maak met die saak! Maar die Leviete het nie gou gemaak nie.
6 Toe roep die koning die hoofpriester Jojada en sê vir hom: Waarom het jy nie gesorg dat die Leviete uit Juda en uit Jerusalem die belasting van Moses, die kneg van die HERE, en van die vergadering van Israel vir die tent van die Getuienis inbring nie?
7 Want die goddelose At lia -- haar seuns het in die huis van God ingebreek en selfs al die heilige gawes van die huis van die HERE vir die Baäls gebruik.
8 Op bevel van die koning maak hulle toe 'n kis en sit dit buitekant by die poort van die huis van die HERE neer.
9 En hulle het uitgeroep in Juda en in Jerusalem om aan die HERE die belasting wat Moses, die kneg van God, op Israel in die woestyn gelê het, te bring.
10 Toe was al die owerstes en die hele volk bly, en hulle het dit ingebring en in die kis gegooi totdat hulle klaar was.
11 En elke keer as hulle die kis deur die diens van die Leviete by die wag van die koning bring en hulle sien dat die geld baie is, kom die skrywer van die koning en die opsigter van die hoofpriester en hulle maak die kis leeg en bring dit weer na sy plek terug; so het hulle van dag tot dag gedoen en geld in menigte versamel.
12 En die koning en Jojada het dit aan die uitvoerders van die werk aan die huis van die HERE gegee, en die het klipkappers en skrynwerkers gehuur om die huis van die HERE te herstel, en ook yster-- en kopersmede om die huis van die HERE te verbeter.
13 En die uitvoerders van die werk was ywerig besig, sodat die herstellingswerk deur hulle hand gevorder het, en hulle het die huis van God herstel volgens sy oorspronklike bouplan en dit reggemaak.
14 En toe hulle klaar was, het hulle die orige geld voor die koning en Jojada gebring, en hy het daarvan gereedskap laat maak vir die huis van die HERE, diens-- en offergereedskap en rookpanne en goue en silwervoorwerpe; en hulle was gedurigdeur besig om brandoffers te bring in die huis van die HERE al die dae van Jojada.
15 En Jojada het oud geword en was afgeleef en het gesterwe; hy was honderd en dertig jaar oud toe hy gesterf het.
16 En hy is begrawe in die stad van Dawid by die konings; want hy het goed gedoen in Israel teenoor God sowel as teenoor sy huis.
17 Maar n die dood van Jojada kom die owerstes van Juda en buig hulle voor die koning neer. Toe het die koning na hulle geluister,
18 en hulle het die huis van die HERE, die God van hulle vaders, verlaat en het die heilige boomstamme en die afgode gedien. Toe kom daar 'n toorn oor Juda en Jerusalem weens hierdie skuld van hulle.
19 En Hy het profete onder hulle gestuur om hulle na die HERE terug te bring; en die het hulle gewaarsku, maar hulle het nie gehoor gegee nie.
20 Toe het die Gees van God Sagar¡a, die seun van die priester Jojada, vervul, en die het voor die volk gaan staan en aan hulle gesê: So spreek God: Waarom oortree julle die gebooie van die HERE en wil julle nie voorspoedig wees nie? Omdat julle die HERE verlaat het, het Hy julle verlaat.
21 Daarop smee hulle 'n sameswering teen hom en stenig hom op bevel van die koning in die voorhof van die huis van die HERE.
22 En koning Joas het nie gedink aan die guns wat sy vader Jojada aan hom bewys het nie en het sy seun vermoor. Maar toe die sterwe, het hy gesê: Mag die HERE dit sien en rekenskap vorder!
23 En by die wisseling van die jaar het 'n leër van Aram teen hom opgetrek, en hulle het in Juda en Jerusalem aangekom en al die volksowerstes onder die volk uitgeroei en al hulle buit na die koning van Damaskus gestuur.
24 Alhoewel die leër van Aram met 'n geringe aantal manne gekom het, het die HERE tog 'n baie groot leër in hulle hand gegee, omdat hulle die HERE, die God van hulle vaders, verlaat het. En hulle het strafgerigte geoefen teen Joas.
25 En toe hulle van hom wegtrek -- want hulle het hom in hewige pyne agtergelaat -- smee sy dienaars 'n sameswering teen hom vanweë die bloed van die seun van die priester Jojada; en hulle het hom op sy bed vermoor, sodat hy gesterf het; en hy is begrawe in die stad van Dawid, maar hulle het hom nie in die grafte van die konings begrawe nie.
26 En d¡t is hulle wat teen hom saamgesweer het: Sabad, die seun van S¡meat, die Ammonitiese, en Josabad, die seun van Simrit, die Moabitiese.
27 En sy seuns en die baie godsprake teen hom en die grondvesting van die huis van God -- kyk, dit is beskrywe in die Uitleg van die boek van die konings. En sy seun Am sia het in sy plek koning geword.
28 Van Magli: Ele sar; die het geen seuns gehad nie.
29 Wat Kis betref, die seuns van Kis was Jer gmeël.
30 En die seuns van Musi was Magli en Eder en J,rimot. Dit was die seuns van die Leviete volgens hulle families.
31 En hulle het ook die lot gewerp net soos hulle broers, die seuns van A„ron, in teenwoordigheid van koning Dawid en Sadok en Ahim,leg en die familiehoofde van die priesters en van die Leviete: die familiehoof net soos sy jonger broer.
1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.
3 And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4 Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;
5 And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.
6 Then the king sent for Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, Why have you not given the Levites orders that the tax fixed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the meeting of Israel, for the Tent of witness, is to be got in from Judah and Jerusalem and handed over?
7 For the house of the Lord had been broken up by Athaliah, that evil woman, and her sons; and all its holy things they had given to the Baals.
8 So at the king's order they made a chest and put it outside the doorway of the house of the Lord.
9 And an order was sent out through all Judah and Jerusalem that payment was to be made to the Lord of the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had put on Israel in the waste land.
10 And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given.
11 So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.
12 Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again.
13 So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.
14 And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.
15 But Jehoiada became old and full of days, and he came to his end; he was a hundred and thirty years old at the time of his death.
16 And they put him into his last resting-place in the town of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel for God and for his house.
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the chiefs of Judah came and went down on their faces before the king. Then the king gave ear to them.
18 And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.
19 And the Lord sent them prophets to make them come back to him; and they gave witness against them, but they would not give ear.
20 Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up.
21 But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.
22 So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!
23 Now in the spring, the army of the Aramaeans came up against him; they came against Judah and Jerusalem, putting to death all the great men of the people and sending all the goods they took from them to the king of Damascus.
24 For though the army of Aram was only a small one, the Lord gave a very great army into their hands, because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they put into effect the punishment of Joash.
25 And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.
26 Those who made designs against him were Zabad, the son of Shimeath, an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad, the son of Shimrith, a Moabite woman.
27 Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.