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.
1 Семи лет [был] Иоас, когда воцарился, и сорок лет царствовал в Иерусалиме; имя матери его Цивья из Вирсавии.
2 И делал Иоас угодное в очах Господних во все дни Иодая священника.
3 И взял ему Иодай двух жен, и он имел [от них] сыновей и дочерей.
4 И после сего пришло на сердце Иоасу обновить дом Господень,
5 и собрал он священников и левитов и сказал им: пойдите по городам Иудеи и собирайте со всех Израильтян серебро для поддержания дома Бога вашего из года в год, и поспешите в этом деле. Но не поспешили левиты.
6 И призвал царь Иодая, главу [их], и сказал ему: почему ты не требуешь от левитов, чтобы они доставляли с Иудеи и Иерусалима дань, [установленную] Моисеем, рабом Господним, и собранием Израильтян для скинии собрания?
7 Ибо нечестивая Гофолия и сыновья ее разорили дом Божий и все посвященное для дома Господня употребили для Ваалов.
8 И приказал царь, и сделали один ящик, и поставили его у входа в дом Господень извне.
9 И провозгласили по Иудее и Иерусалиму, чтобы приносили Господу дань, [наложенную] Моисеем, рабом Божиим, на Израильтян в пустыне.
10 И обрадовались все начальствующие и весь народ, и приносили и клали в ящик дотоле, доколе он не наполнился.
11 В то время, когда приносили ящик к царским чиновникам чрез левитов, и когда они видели, что серебра много, приходил писец царя и поверенный первосвященника, и высыпали из ящика, и относили его и ставили его на свое место. Так делали они изо дня в день, и собрали множество серебра.
12 И отдавали его царь и Иодай производителям работ по дому Господню, и они нанимали каменотесов и плотников для подновления дома Господня, также кузнецов и медников для укрепления дома Господня.
13 И работали производители работ, и совершилось исправление руками их, и привели дом Божий в надлежащее состояние его, и укрепили его.
14 И кончив [все], они представили царю и Иодаю остаток серебра. И сделали из него сосуды для дома Господня, сосуды служебные и [для] всесожжений, чаши и [другие] сосуды золотые и серебряные. И приносили всесожжения в доме Господнем постоянно во все дни Иодая.
15 И состарился Иодай и, насытившись днями [жизни], умер: сто тридцать лет [было] ему, когда он умер.
16 И похоронили его в городе Давидовом с царями, потому что он делал доброе в Израиле и для Бога, и для дома Его.
17 Но по смерти Иодая пришли князья Иудейские и поклонились царю; тогда царь стал слушаться их.
18 И оставили дом Господа Бога отцов своих и стали служить деревам [посвященным] и идолам, – и был гнев [Господень] на Иуду и Иерусалим за сию вину их.
19 И он посылал к ним пророков для обращения их к Господу, и они увещевали их, но те не слушали.
20 И Дух Божий облек Захарию, сына Иодая священника, и он стал на возвышении пред народом и сказал им: так говорит Господь: для чего вы преступаете повеления Господни? не будет успеха вам; и как вы оставили Господа, то и Он оставит вас.
21 И сговорились против него, и побили его камнями, по приказанию царя, на дворе дома Господня.
22 И не вспомнил царь Иоас благодеяния, какое сделал ему Иодай, отец его, и убил сына его. И он умирая говорил: да видит Господь и да взыщет!
23 И по истечении года выступило против него войско Сирийское, и вошли в Иудею и в Иерусалим, и истребили из народа всех князей народа, и всю добычу, [взятую] у них, отослали к царю в Дамаск.
24 Хотя в небольшом числе людей приходило войско Сирийское, но Господь предал в руку их весьма многочисленную силу за то, что оставили Господа Бога отцов своих. И над Иоасом совершили они суд,
25 и когда они ушли от него, оставив его в тяжкой болезни, то составили против него заговор рабы его, за кровь сына Иодая священника, и убили его на постели его, и он умер. И похоронили его в городе Давидовом, но не похоронили его в царских гробницах.
26 Заговорщиками же против него были: Завад, сын Шимеафы Аммонитянки, и Иегозавад, сын Шимрифы Моавитянки.
27 О сыновьях его и о множестве пророчеств против него и об устроении дома Божия написано в книге царей. И воцарился Амасия, сын его, вместо него.