1 In die sewende jaar van Jehu het Joas koning geword, en hy het veertig jaar geregeer in Jerusalem; en die naam van sy moeder was S¡bja, van Bers,ba.

2 En Joas het gedoen wat reg was in die oë van die HERE, al sy dae waarin die priester Jojada hom onderrig het.

3 Net die hoogtes is nie afgeskaf nie; die volk het nog geoffer en op die hoogtes rook laat opgaan.

4 En Joas het aan die priesters gesê: Al die geld wat as heilige gawes in die huis van die HERE gebring word, gangbare geld, elkeen se personegeld waarvoor hy geskat is, en al die geld wat iemand vrywillig in die huis van die HERE bring,

5 mag die priesters vir hulle neem, elkeen van sy bekende, en hulle moet die bouvallige plekke van die huis herstel waar 'n bouvallige plek ook al gevind word.

6 Maar toe in die drie en twintigste jaar van koning Joas die priesters die bouvallige plekke van die huis nie herstel het nie,

7 het koning Joas Jojada, die priester, en die priesters geroep en aan hulle gesê: Waarom herstel julle nie die bouvallige plekke van die huis nie? Nou dan, julle moet geen geld van julle bekendes aanneem nie, maar dit gee vir die bouvallige plekke van die huis.

8 En die priesters het ingewillig om geen geld van die volk aan te neem nie en om die bouvallige plekke van die huis dan ook nie te herstel nie.

9 Toe neem die priester Jojada 'n kis en boor 'n opening in sy deksel en sit dit langs die altaar neer aan die regterkant as 'n mens in die huis van die HERE inkom; en die priesters wat die drumpel bewaak, het al die geld wat in die huis van die HERE ingebring is, daarin gegooi.

10 En toe hulle sien dat daar baie geld in die kis was, het die skrywer van die koning opgegaan en die hoëpriester en dit saamgebind en die geld getel wat in die huis van die HERE gevind is.

11 En hulle het die afgetelde geld oorhandig aan die uitvoerders van die werk wat oor die huis van die HERE aangestel was, en hulle het dit uitbetaal aan die skrynwerkers en die bouers wat aan die huis van die HERE gewerk het,

12 en aan die messelaars en aan die klipkappers, en om houte en gekapte klippe te koop om die bouvallige plekke van die huis van die HERE te herstel, ja, vir alles wat uitgegee moes word aan die huis om dit te herstel.

13 Ewenwel is daar in die huis van die HERE geen silwerskottels, messe, komme, trompette -- enige goue gereedskap of silwergereedskap gemaak van die geld wat in die huis van die HERE gebring is nie.

14 Maar hulle het dit aan die uitvoerders van die werk gegee om daarmee die huis van die HERE te herstel.

15 En hulle het nie met die manne afgereken in wie se hand die geld toevertrou was om dit aan die uitvoerders van die werk te gee nie, want hulle het met getrouheid gehandel.

16 Die geld van die skuldoffer en die geld van sondoffers is nie in die huis van die HERE gebring nie; dit was vir die priesters.

17 Destyds het H sael, die koning van Aram, opgetrek en teen Gat geveg en dit ingeneem; daarna het H sael sy aangesig gerig om teen Jerusalem op te trek.

18 Toe neem Joas, die koning van Juda, al die heilige gawes wat sy vaders Josafat en Joram en Ah sia, die konings van Juda, geheilig het, met sy eie heilige gawes en al die goud wat te vinde was in die skatkamers van die HERE se huis en van die koning se huis, en stuur dit aan H sael, die koning van Aram. Daarop het hy van Jerusalem af weggetrek.

19 En die verdere geskiedenis van Joas en alles wat hy gedoen het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie?

20 En sy dienaars het opgestaan en 'n sameswering gesmee en Joas gedood in die huis Millo wat aflê na Silla toe --

21 Josabad, die seun van S¡meat, en Josabad, die seun van Somer, sy dienaars, het hom doodgeslaan; en hy is begrawe by sy vaders in die stad van Dawid, en sy seun Am sia het in sy plek koning geword.

1 In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

2 Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,

5 Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.

6 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.

7 Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.

8 So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.

9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.

10 And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.

11 And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,

12 And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

13 But the money was not used for making silver cups or scissors or basins or wind-instruments or any vessels of gold or silver for the house of the Lord;

14 But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

15 And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.

16 The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.

17 Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem.

18 Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

20 And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

21 And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.