1كان يوآش ابن سبع سنين حين ملك وملك اربعين سنة في اورشليم واسم امه ظبية من بئر سبع.
1Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2وعمل يوآش المستقيم في عيني الرب كل ايام يهوياداع الكاهن.
2Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3واتخذ يهوياداع له امرأتين فولد بنين وبنات
3Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.
4وحدث بعد ذلك انه كان في قلب يوآش ان يجدد بيت الرب.
4It happened after this, that Joash intended to restore the house of Yahweh.
5فجمع الكهنة واللاويون وقال لهم. اخرجوا الى مدن يهوذا واجمعوا من جميع اسرائيل فضة لاجل ترميم بيت الهكم من سنة الى سنة وبادروا انتم الى هذا الأمر. فلم يبادر اللاويون.
5He 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.
6فدعا الملك يهوياداع الراس وقال له لماذا لم تطلب من اللاويين ان ياتوا من يهوذا واورشليم بجزية موسى عبد الرب وجماعة اسرائيل لخيمة الشهادة.
6The 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?”
7لان بني عثليا الخبيثة قد هدموا بيت الله وصيّروا كل اقداس بيت الرب للبعليم.
7For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the house of Yahweh to the Baals.
8وأمر الملك فعملوا صندوقا وجعلوه في باب بيت الرب خارجا
8So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.
9ونادوا في يهوذا واورشليم بان يأتوا الى الرب بجزية موسى عبد الرب المفروضة على اسرائيل في البرية.
9They 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.
10ففرح كل الرؤساء وكل الشعب وادخلوا والقوا في الصندوق حتى امتلأ.
10All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
11وحينما كان يؤتى بالصندوق الى وكالة الملك ليد اللاويين عندما يرون ان الفضة قد كثرت كان ياتي كاتب الملك ووكيل الكاهن الراس ويفرغان الصندوق ثم يحملانه ويردانه الى مكانه هكذا كانوا يفعلون يوما فيوم حتى جمعوا فضة بكثرة.
11It was so, that 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.
12ودفعها الملك ويهوياداع لعاملي شغل خدمة بيت الرب وكانوا يستأجرون نحاتين ونجارين لتجديد بيت الرب وللعاملين في الحديد والنحاس ايضا لترميم بيت الرب.
12The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such as worked iron and brass to repair the house of Yahweh.
13فعمل عاملوا الشغل ونجح العمل بايديهم واقاموا بيت الله على رسمه وثبتوه.
13So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up God’s house in its state, and strengthened it.
14ولما اكملوا أتوا الى ما بين يدي الملك ويهوياداع ببقية الفضة وعملوها آنية لبيت الرب آنية خدمة واصعاد وصحونا وآنية ذهب وفضة. وكانوا يصعدون محرقات في بيت الرب دائما كل ايام يهوياداع
14When they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels for the house of Yahweh, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh continually all the days of Jehoiada.
15وشاخ يهوياداع وشبع من الايام ومات. كان ابن مئة وثلاثين سنة عند وفاته.
15But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died.
16فدفنوه في مدينة داود مع الملوك لانه عمل خيرا في اسرائيل ومع الله وبيته.
16They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
17وبعد موت يهوياداع جاء رؤساء يهوذا وسجدوا للملك. حينئذ سمع الملك لهم
17Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
18وتركوا بيت الرب اله آبائهم وعبدوا السواري والاصنام فكان غضب على يهوذا واورشليم لاجل اثمهم هذا.
18They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
19وارسل اليهم انبياء لارجاعهم الى الرب واشهدوا عليهم فلم يصغوا.
19Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
20ولبس روح الله زكريا بن يهوياداع الكاهن فوقف فوق الشعب وقال لهم هكذا يقول الله لماذا تتعدون وصايا الرب فلا تفلحون. لانكم تركتم الرب قد ترككم.
20The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you disobey the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”
21ففتنوا عليه ورجموه بحجارة بامر الملك في دار بيت الرب.
21They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.
22ولم يذكر يواش الملك المعروف الذي عمله يهوياداع ابوه معه بل قتل ابنه. وعند موته قال الرب ينظر ويطالب
22Thus 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.”
23وفي مدار السنة صعد عليه جيش ارام واتوا الى يهوذا واورشليم واهلكوا كل رؤساء الشعب من الشعب وجميع غنيمتهم ارسلوها الى ملك دمشق.
23It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
24لان جيش ارام جاء بشرذمة قليلة ودفع الرب ليدهم جيشا كثيرا جدا لانهم تركوا الرب اله آبائهم. فاجروا قضاء على يواش.
24For 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.
25وعند ذهابهم عنه. لانهم تركوه بامراض كثيرة. فتن عليه عبيده من اجل دماء بني يهوياداع الكاهن وقتلوه على سريره فمات فدفنوه في مدينة داود ولم يدفنوه في قبور الملوك.
25When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), 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; and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
26وهذان هما الفاتنان عليه زاباد ابن شمعة العمونية ويهوزاباد ابن شمريت الموآبية.
26These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
27واما بنوه وكثرة ما حمل عليه ومرمّة بيت الله ها هي مكتوبة في مدرس سفر الملوك. وملك امصيا ابنه عوضا عنه
27Now concerning his sons, and 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.