¹Zvino negore rechinomwe raJehu, Jehoashi wakatanga kubata ushe; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore makumi mana; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Zibhia weBheerishebha.

¹In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

²Jehoashi akaita zvakanaka pamberi paJehovha mazuva ake ose, aakadzidziswa nawo nomupristi Jehoyadha.

²And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

³Kunyange zvakadaro matunhu akakwirira haana kubviswa; vanhu vakaramba vachibayira zvibayiro nokupisa zvinonhuhwira pamatunhu akakwirira.

³Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁴Zvino Jehoashi akati kuvapristi, Mari yose yezvinhu zvakatsaurwa, inoiswa mumba maJehovha, mari yavanhu vakaverengwa, nemari yavose sezvavakatarirwa mumwe nomumwe, nemari yose, inoiswa mumba maJehovha nomumwe nomumwe nomoyo wake,

⁴And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,

⁵vapristi ngavatore mari iyo, mumwe nomumwe kumuzikamwi wake, vagadzire zvakaputsika patemberi pose pose pavanowana pakaputsika.

⁵let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

⁶Asi negore ramakumi maviri namatatu ramambo Jehoashi vapristi vakanga vachigere kugadzira zvakaputsika paimba.

⁶But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

⁷Zvino mambo Jehoashi akadana mupristi Jehoyadha navamwe vapristi, akati kwavari, Munoregereiko kugadzira zvakaputsika paimba? Naizvozvo zvino chiregai kutora mari kuvazikamwi venyu, asi muibudisire zvakaputsika patemberi.

⁷Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

⁸Vapristi vakatenda kusatora mari kuvanhu, kunyange kugadzira zvakaputsika patemberi.

⁸And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

⁹Asi mupristi Jehoyadha wakatora bhokisi, akabvovora buri pachifunhiro charo, akarigadzika kurutivi rwearitari, kurudyi rwomunhu, kana achipinda paimba yaJehovha.

⁹But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.

¹⁰Zvino vakati kana vaona kuti mari zhinji yavamo mubhokisi, munyori wamambo nomupristi mukuru ndokuuya, ndokuisa muhomwe, vachiverenga mari yakawanikwa mumba maJehovha.

¹⁰And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah.

¹¹Vakaisa mari yakayerwa mumaoko avaibata basa iro, vaitarira temberi yaJehovha; zvino vairipira nayo vavezi navavaki vaibata patemberi yaJehovha,

¹¹And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the house of Jehovah,

¹²navaironga navaiveza mabwe, vakatenga matanda namabwe akavezwa okugadzirisa nawo zvakaputsika patemberi yaJehovha, nokuripira zvose zvaidikamwa kuzogadzirisa nazvo temberi.

¹²and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

¹³Asi havana kuitira temberi yaJehovha mikombe yesirivha, nembato dzemwenje, nembiya, nehwamanda, nemidziyo yendarama, nemidziyo yesirivha, nemari yakaiswa temberi yaJehovha,

¹³But there were not made for the house of Jehovah cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah;

¹⁴nekuti vakaiisa kuna vaibata basa, kuti vagadzirise temberi yaJehovha nayo.

¹⁴for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Jehovah.

¹⁵Uye havana kuzobvunza vanhu avo, vavaipa mari mumaoko avo, kuzoripira vaibata basa; nekuti ivo vaibata vakatendeka.

¹⁵Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to them that did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

¹⁶Asi mari yezvipiriso zvemhosva, nemari yezvipiriso zvezvivi, hazvina kuiswa mumba maJehovha; yakapiwa vapristi.

¹⁶The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the priests'.

¹⁷Zvino Hazaeri mambo weSiria wakaenda kundorwa neGati, akarikunda, Hazaeri akaringira chiso chake kuenda Jerusaremu.

¹⁷Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

¹⁸Asi Jehoashi mambo waJudha, wakatora zvinhu zvose zvakatsaurwa, zvakanga zvatsaurwa namadzibaba ake, Jehoshafati, naJehoramu, naAhazia, madzimambo aJudha, nezvinhu zvake zvose zvakatsaurwa, nendarama yose yakawanikwa pafuma yeimba yaJehovha neimba yamambo, akazvituma kuna Hazaeri mambo weSiria; iye akabva Jerusaremu.

¹⁸And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

¹⁹Mamwe mabasa aJoashi, nezvose zvaakaita, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aJudha?

¹⁹Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

²⁰Zvino varanda vake vakasimuka, vakarangana, vakauraya Joashi paimba yaMiro, panzira inoburukira Sira.

²⁰And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goeth down to Silla.

²¹Nekuti Jozakari mwanakomana waShimeati, naJehozabhadhi mwanakomana waShomeri, varanda vake, vakamubaya, akafa; vakamuviga kumadzibaba ake muguta raDhavhidhi; Amazia mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

²¹For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.