2 Crônicas 24

1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. 2 Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 3 Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

4 After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s house. 5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter." However the Levites didn’t do it right away. 6 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, "Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?" 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.

8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house. 9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. 10 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it. 11 Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. 12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair Yahweh’s house. 13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it. 14 When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.

15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died. 16 They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them. 18 They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. 19 Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.

20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, "God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’"

21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house. 22 Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May Yahweh look at it, and repay it."

23 At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus. 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.

25 When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings. 26 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. 27 Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

Ko Kīngi Iehoaha o Hūrā

1 E whitu ngā tau o Ioaha i a ia i kīngi ai; ā, e whā tekau ngā tau i kīngi ai ia ki Hiruhārama. Ā, ko te ingoa o tōna whaea, ko Tipia, nō Peerehepa. 2 Nā, he tika ngā mahi a Ioaha ki te titiro a Ihowā i ngā rā katoa o te tohunga, o Iehoiara. 3 Ā, i tangohia e Iehoiara he wahine māna, tokorua; ā, ka whānau āna tama, āna tamāhine.

4 I muri i tēnei ka whai ngākau a Ioaha ki te whakahou i te whare o Ihowā. 5 Ā, ka oti ngā tohunga me ngā Rīwaiti te huihui e ia, ka mea ia ki a rātou, "Haere ki ngā pā o Hūrā, ki te kohikohi moni mai i a Īharaira katoa hei whakahou i te whare o tō koutou Atua, i tēnei tau, i tēnei tau; mā koutou hoki e whakahohoro taua mahi." Heoi, kīhai i hohoro i ngā Rīwaiti.

6 Nā, ka karanga te kīngi ki a Iehoiara, ko te upoko hoki ia, ā, ka mea ki a ia, "He aha koe tē mea ai ki ngā Rīwaiti kia mauria mai i a Hūrā, i Hiruhārama, te mea i kohikohia, tā Mohi pononga a Ihowā me tā te whakaminenga o Īharaira mō te tapenākara o te whakaaturanga?"

7 Nā ngā tama hoki a taua wahine kino a Atāria i wāhi te whare o te Atua; ā, ko ngā mea tapu katoa o te whare o Ihowā, meinga ana e rātou mō ngā Paara.

8 Heoi, ka kōrero te kīngi, ā, ka hangā he pouaka e rātou, whakatūria ana ki waho, ki te kūwaha o te whare o Ihowā. 9 Nā, ka pā te karanga puta noa i a Hūrā, i Hiruhārama, kia kawea mai ki a Ihowā te kohikohi i whakaritea e Mohi, e tā te Atua pononga, ki a Īharaira i te koraha. 10 Nā, koa tonu ngā rangatira katoa me te iwi katoa, ā, kawea ana mai e rātou, makā ana ki roto ki te pouaka ā rite noa. 11 Ā, i ngā wā e kawea mai ai e ngā Rīwaiti te pouaka ki te whare takoha o te kīngi, ā, ka kitea kua rahi te moni, ka haere mai te kaituhituhi a te kīngi rāua ko te tangata a te tino tohunga, ka ringihia e rāua ngā mea i roto i te pouaka, nā, ka tango rāua, ka whakahoki anō ki tōna wāhi. Pēnā tonu rātou i ia rā, i ia rā, ā, nui atu te moni i kohikohia. 12 Ā, hoatu ana e te kīngi rāua ko Iehoiara ki ngā tāngata i te mahi o ngā mea mō te whare o Ihowā; ā, nā rātou i utu ngā kaimahi kōhatu, ngā kāmura, hei whakahou i te whare o Ihowā, ngā kaimahi hoki i te rino, i te parāhi, hei whakaora mō te whare o Ihowā.

13 Heoi, ka mahi ngā kaimahi, ā, ka oti te mahi i a rātou; nā, kua meinga e rātou kia rite ki tō mua āhua te tū o te whare o te Atua, kia kaha hoki. 14 Ā, ka oti i a rātou, ka kawea te toenga o te moni ki te aroaro o te kīngi rāua ko Iehoiara, ā, ka waiho hei hanga i ētahi oko mō te whare o Ihowā, i ngā oko minita, i ngā mea mō ngā patunga tapu, i ngā koko, i ngā oko kōura, hiriwa. Ā, he whakaeke tonu tā rātou i te tahunga tinana i te whare o Ihowā i ngā rā katoa o Iehoiara.

Ka Whakahokia ngā Kaupapa a Iehoiara

15 Otiia, kua koroheketia a Iehoiara, kua maha ōna rā, ā, ka mate; kotahi rau e toru tekau ōna tau i tōna matenga. 16 Ā, tanumia ana ia ki te pā o Rāwiri ki te taha o ngā kīngi; he pai hoki nō tāna mahi ki a Īharaira, ki te Atua hoki, ā, ki tōna whare.

17 Nā, i muri i te matenga o Iehoiara ka haere mai ngā rangatira o Hūrā, ā, ka piko ki te kīngi. Nā, rongo tonu te kīngi ki a rātou. 18 Nā, whakarērea ake e rātou te whare o Ihowā, o te Atua o ō rātou mātua, mahi ana rātou ki ngā Aherimi, ki ngā whakapakoko. Nā, kua pā he riri ki a Hūrā, ki Hiruhārama, mō tēnei hē ō rātou. 19 Heoi, ungā ana e ia ngā poropiti ki a rātou hei whakahoki i a rātou ki a Ihowā, ā, whakawā ana rātou i a rātou; otiia kīhai i rongo.

20 Nā, kua tau te Wairua o te Atua ki te tohunga, ki a Hakaraia tama a Iehoiara; ā, ka tū ia ki runga ake i te iwi, ka mea ki a rātou, "Ko te kupu tēnei a te Atua: ‘He aha koutou ka takahi ai i ngā whakahau a Ihowā? Mā konei hoki ka kore ai koutou e kake. Kua whakarērea nei e koutou a Ihowā, nā, kua whakarērea hoki koutou e ia.’ "

21 Nā, ka whakatupuria e rātou he hē mōna, ā, ākina ia ki te kōhatu, nā te kīngi i whakahau, ki te marae o te whare o Ihowā. 22 Heoi, kīhai a Kīngi Ioaha i mahara ki te aroha i whakaputaina e tōna pāpā, e Iehoiara, ki a ia; heoi patua ana e ia tāna tama. Ā, i tōna matenga, ka mea ia, "Mā Ihowā e titiro, e rapu utu."

Te Matenga o Ioaha

23 Nā, taka rawa ake te tau, ka whakaekea ia e te taua o Hīria; ā, haere ana mai rātou ki a Hūrā, ki Hiruhārama, whakangaromia ana e rātou ngā rangatira katoa o te iwi i roto i te iwi, tukua ana e rātou ō rātou taonga katoa kia kawea ki te kīngi o Ramahiku. 24 He tokoiti hoki ngā tāngata o te taua o ngā Hīriani i haere mai nei; ā, hoatu ana e Ihowā te ope nui rawa ki ō rātou ringa, mō rātou i whakarere i a Ihowā, i te Atua o ō rātou mātua. Heoi, tutuki ana i a rātou he whakawā mō Ioaha. 25 Ā, nō tō rātou haerenga atu i a ia, i mahue iho hoki ia i a rātou he nui ōna mate, ka whakatupuria e āna tāngata he hē mōna, mō ngā toto o ngā tama a Iehoiara tohunga, ā, patua ana ia e rātou, ki runga ki tōna moenga, ā, mate iho. Nā, tanumia ana ia e rātou ki te pā o Rāwiri, otiia kāhore ki ngā tanumanga o ngā kīngi.

26 Nā, ko ngā tāngata nāna i whakatupu te hē mōna; ko Tāpara, tama a tētahi wahine o Āmona, a Himeata, ko Iehotāpara, tama a tētahi wahine o Moapa, a Timiriti. 27 Nā, ko āna tama, me te nui o ngā taimaha i utaina ki runga ki a ia, me te hanganga i te whare o te Atua, nanā, kei te tuhituhi ēnā i roto i ngā kōrero o te pukapuka o ngā kīngi; ā, ko tāna tama, ko Amatia, te kīngi i muri i a ia.