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 Beersheba.

¹I Jehus syvende Regeringsår blev Joas Konge, og han herskede fyrretyveÅr i Jerusalem. Hans Moder hed Zibja og var fra Be'ersjeba.

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

²Joas gjorde hele sit Liv, hvad der var ret i HERRENs Øjne, idet Præsten Jojada vejledede ham.

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

³Hun forsvandt Offerhøjene ikke, men Folket blev ved med at ofre og tænde Offerild på Højene.

⁴Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,

⁴Joas sagde til Præsterne: "Alle Penge, der indkommer i HERRENs Hus som Helliggaver, de Penge, det pålægges at udrede efter Vurdering - de Penge, Personer vurderes til - og alle Penge, man efter Hjertets Tilskyndelse bringer til HERRENs Hus,

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

⁵skal Præsterne tage imod, hver af sine Kendinge, og for dem skal de istandsætte de brøstfældige Steder på Templet, alle brøstfældige Steder, som findes."

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

⁶Men i Kong Joas's tre og tyvende Regeringsår havde Præsterne endnu ikke istandsat de brøstfældige Steder på Templet.

⁷Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.”

⁷Da lod Kong Joas Præsten Jojada og de andre Præster kalde og sagde til dem: "Hvorfor istandsætter I ikke de brøstfældige Steder på Templet? Nu må I ikke mere tage mod Penge af eders Kendinge, men I skal afgive Pengene til Istandsættelse af de brøstfældige Steder på Templet!"

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

⁸Og Præsterne gik ind på ikke mere at modtage Penge af Folket, mod at de blev fri for at istandsætte de brøstfældige Steder på Templet.

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

⁹Præsten Jojada tog så en Kiste, borede Hul i Låget og satte den ved Stenstøtten til højre for Indgangen til HERRENs Hus, og der lagde Præsterne, der holdt Vagt ved Dørtærskelen, alle de Penge, der indkom i HERRENs Hus.

¹⁰It 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 Yahweh.

¹⁰Og når de så, at der var mange Penge i Kisten, kom Kongens Skriver og Ypperstepræsten op og bandt Pengene, som fandtes i HERRENs Hus, sammen og talte dem.

¹¹They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,

¹¹Derpå gav man de afvejede Penge til dem, der stod for Arbejdet, dem, der havde Tilsyn med HERRENs Hus, og de udbetalte dem til Tømrerne og Bygningsmændene, der arbejdede på HERRENs Hus,

¹²and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

¹²til Murerne og Stenhuggerne, eller brugte dem til Indkøb af Træ og tilhugne Sten til Istandsættelse af de brøstfældige Steder på HERRENs Hus og til at dække alle Udgifter ved Templets Istandsættelse.

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

¹³Derimod blev der for de Penge, der indkom i HERRENs Hus, hverken lavet Sølvfade eller Knive, Skåle, Trompeter eller nogen som helst anden Ting af Sølv eller Guld til HERRENs Hus;

¹⁴for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Yahweh.

¹⁴men Pengene blev givet til dem, der stod for Arbejdet, og de brugte dem til Istandsættelsen af HERRENs Hus.

¹⁵Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

¹⁵Og man holdt ikke Regnskab med de Mænd, hvem Pengene overlodes til Udbetaling til Arbejderne, men de handlede på Tro og Love.

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

¹⁶Men Skyldoffer- og Syndofferpengene blev ikke bragt til HERRENs Hus; de tilfaldt Præsterne.

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

¹⁷På den Tid drog Kong Hazael af Aram op og belejrede og indtog Gat. Da han truede med at drage mod Jerusalem,

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

¹⁸tog Kong Joas af Juda alle de Helliggaver, som hans Fædre, Judas Konger Josafat, Joram og Ahazja havde helliget, sine egne Helliggaver og alt det Guld, der fandtes i Skatkamrene i HERRENs Hus og Kongens Palads, og sendte det til Kong Hazael af Aram. Så opgav han Angrebet på Jerusalem og drog bort.

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

¹⁹Hvad der ellers er at fortælle om Joas, alt, hvad han udførte, står optegnet i Judas Kongers Krønike.

²⁰His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

²⁰Men Joas's Hoffolk rejste sig og stiftede en Sammensværgelse og dræbte ham, engang han gik ned til Millos Hus.

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

²¹Det var hans Hoffolk Jozakar, Sjimats Søn, og Jozabad, Sjomers Søn, der slog ham ibjel. Og man jordede ham hos hans Fædre i Davidsbyen; og hans Søn Amazjablev Konge i hans Sted.