¹V sedmem letu Jehujevem je zakraljeval Joas in je vladal štirideset let v Jeruzalemu; in materi njegovi je bilo ime Zibija iz Bersebe.

¹In the seventh year of Jehu reigned hath Jehoash, and forty years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Zibiah of Beer-Sheba,

²In Joas je delal, kar je bilo prav v očeh GOSPODOVIH vse dni, dokler ga je poučeval Jojada duhovnik.

²and Jehoash doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest directed him,

³Toda višave niso bile odpravljene, ljudstvo je še darovalo in žgalo kadilo na višavah.

³only, the high places have not turned aside, still are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

⁴In Joas veli duhovnikom: Ves denar posvečenih daril, ki se prinaša v hišo GOSPODOVO, srebro vsakega preštetega, srebro duš, s katerim je vsaka ocenjena, in vse srebro, ki pride komu v srce, da bi ga prinesel v hišo GOSPODOVO,

⁴And Jehoash saith unto the priests, `All the money of the sanctified things that is brought in to the house of Jehovah, the money of him who is passing over, each the money of his valuation, all the money that it goeth up on the heart of a man to bring in to the house of Jehovah,

⁵duhovniki naj ga sprejmejo vsak od svojega znanca; in naj popravijo, kar je podrtega pri hiši, kjerkoli najdejo kaj razdrtega.

⁵do the priests take to them, each from his acquaintance, and they strengthen the breach of the house, in all [places] where there is found a breach.`

⁶Ali do triindvajsetega leta kralja Joasa duhovniki niso popravili, kar je bilo podrtega pri hiši.

⁶And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and third year of king Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,

⁷Tedaj pokliče kralj duhovnika Jojada in druge duhovnike in jim reče: Zakaj ne popravite, kar je podrtega pri hiši? Zatorej ne jemljite več denarja od znancev svojih, ampak dajte ga v popravo hiše!

⁷and king Jehoash calleth to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and saith unto them, `Wherefore are ye not strengthening the breach of the house? and now, receive no money from your acquaintances, but for the breach of the house give it.`

⁸In duhovniki so privolili, da niso več jemali denarja od ljudstva, a hiše tudi niso popravljali.

⁸And the priests consent not to receive money from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house,

⁹A Jojada duhovnik vzame skrinjo ter izvrta luknjo v njenem pokrovu in jo postavi ob desni strani oltarja, koder se hodi v hišo GOSPODOVO; in duhovniki, ki so bili čuvaji pri vratih, so devali vanjo ves denar, kar se ga je prineslo v hišo GOSPODOVO.

⁹and Jehoiada the priest taketh a chest, and pierceth a hole in its lid, and putteth it near the altar, on the right side, as one cometh in to the house of Jehovah, and the priests keeping the threshold have put there all the money that is brought in to the house of Jehovah.

¹⁰In kadar so videli, da je dosti denarja v skrinji; je prišel gori kraljev pisar in veliki duhovnik, in sta preštela denar in ga spravila, kolikor so ga našli v hiši GOSPODOVI.

¹⁰And it cometh to pass, at their seeing that the money [is] abundant in the chest, that there goeth up a scribe of the king, and of the high priest, and they bind [it] up, and count the money that is found [in] the house of Jehovah,

¹¹In dajali so pretehtani denar v roke delovodjem, ki so bili postavljeni pri hiši GOSPODOVI, in ti so ga izplačevali tesarjem in delavcem, ki so popravljali hišo GOSPODOVO,

¹¹and have given the weighed money into the hands of those doing the work, those inspecting the house of Jehovah, and they bring it out to those working in the wood, and to builders who are working in the house of Jehovah,

¹²in zidarjem in kamenosekom ter v nakupovanje lesa in obsekanega kamenja v popravo podrtin pri hiši GOSPODOVI in za vse, kar se je porabilo v izboljšavo hiše.

¹²and to those [repairing] the wall, and to hewers of stone, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the breach of the house of Jehovah, and for all that goeth out on the house, to strengthen it.

¹³A srebrnih čaš, usekalnikov, vrčev, trobent in nobene zlate ali srebrne posode za hišo GOSPODOVO niso delali iz denarja, ki se je prinašal v hišo GOSPODOVO,

¹³Only, there is not made for the house of Jehovah basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessel of gold, and vessel of silver, out of the money that is brought into the house of Jehovah;

¹⁴temuč so ga dajali delovodjem, in popravljala se je ž njim hiša GOSPODOVA.

¹⁴for to those doing the work they give it, and they have strengthened with it the house of Jehovah,

¹⁵Tudi niso zahtevali računa od mož, ki so jim dajali denar, da plačajo delavcem, ker so ž njim zvesto ravnali.

¹⁵and they do not reckon with the men into whose hand they give the money to give to those doing the work, for in faithfulness they are dealing.

¹⁶Ali denarja od daritve za krivdo in od daritve za greh niso nosili za hišo GOSPODOVO, ker je bil duhovnikov.

¹⁶The money of a trespass-offering, and the money of sin-offerings is not brought in to the house of Jehovah — for the priests it is.

¹⁷Tedaj je šel gori Hazael, sirski kralj, in se je bojeval zoper Gat in ga dobil. In ko je obrnil Hazael obličje, da bi šel proti Jeruzalemu,

¹⁷Then go up doth Hazael king of Aram, and fighteth against Gath, and captureth it, and Hazael setteth his face to go up against Jerusalem;

¹⁸vzame Joas, kralj Judov, vse posvečeno, kar so bili posvetili očetje njegovi: Josafat, Joram in Ahazija, kralji na Judovem, in kar je bil sam posvetil, tudi vse zlato, kar se ga je našlo v zakladnici hiše GOSPODOVE in hiše kraljeve, in pošlje to Hazaelu, sirskemu kralju. In umaknil se je od Jeruzalema.

¹⁸and Jehoash king of Judah taketh all the sanctified things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, and all the gold that is found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the house of the king, and sendeth to Hazael king of Aram, and he goeth up from off Jerusalem.

¹⁹Druge zgodbe Joasove pa in vse, kar je storil, ni li pisano v knjigi letopisov kraljev Judovih?

¹⁹And the rest of the matters of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

²⁰In njegova služabnika sta se vzdignila ter sklenila zaroto in sta ubila Joasa v hiši Milu, ob poti, koder se gre doli v Silo;Jozakar namreč, sin Simeate, in Jozabad, sin Somerjev, njegova hlapca, sta ga ubila, da je umrl. In pokopali so ga z očeti njegovimi v mestu Davidovem, in Amazija, sin njegov, je zakraljeval na mestu njegovem.

²⁰And his servants rise, and make a conspiracy, and smite Joash in the house of Millo, that is going down to Silla:

²¹Jozakar namreč, sin Simeate, in Jozabad, sin Somerjev, njegova hlapca, sta ga ubila, da je umrl. In pokopali so ga z očeti njegovimi v mestu Davidovem, in Amazija, sin njegov, je zakraljeval na mestu njegovem.

²¹yea, Jozachar son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shemer, his servants, have smitten him, and he dieth, and they bury him with his fathers in the city of David, and reign doth Amaziah his son, in his stead.