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.

¹Yoas berumur 7 tahun pada waktu ia menjadi raja Yehuda, dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem 40 tahun lamanya. Ibunya bernama Zibya dari kota Bersyeba.

²Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

²Selama Imam Yoyada masih hidup, Yoas melakukan hal-hal yang menyenangkan hati TUHAN.

³Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.

³Yoyada memilih dua orang wanita untuk istri Yoas, dan dari mereka Yoas mendapat anak-anak laki-laki dan perempuan.

⁴It happened after this, that Joash intended to restore the house of Yahweh.

⁴Setelah memerintah beberapa waktu lamanya, Yoas memutuskan untuk memperbaiki Rumah TUHAN.

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.

⁵Para imam dan orang Lewi diperintahkannya untuk pergi ke penduduk kota-kota di Yehuda dan mengumpulkan uang dari seluruh rakyat untuk perbaikan gedung Rumah TUHAN setiap tahun. Ia menyuruh mereka segera melaksanakan tugas itu, tetapi orang-orang Lewi berlambat-lambat.

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?”

⁶Karena itu ia memanggil Imam Yoyada, pemimpin mereka, lalu berkata, "Bukankah Musa hamba TUHAN telah menyuruh rakyat membayar pajak untuk membiayai Kemah TUHAN? Sekarang, mengapa orang-orang Lewi itu tidak Bapak desak untuk mengumpulkan pajak dari rakyat di Yehuda dan Yerusalem?"

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.

⁷(Pengikut-pengikut Atalya, wanita jahat itu, sudah merusak Rumah TUHAN, dan banyak dari barang-barang yang dikhususkan untuk Allah telah mereka pakai untuk menyembah Baal.)

⁸So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.

⁸Maka raja memerintahkan supaya orang Lewi membuat sebuah kotak uang dan meletakkannya di depan pintu gerbang Rumah TUHAN.

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.

⁹Di seluruh Yerusalem dan Yehuda diumumkan bahwa semua orang harus membawa pajak untuk TUHAN, seperti yang diwajibkan oleh Musa.

¹⁰All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

¹⁰Pengumuman itu menyenangkan hati rakyat dan pemimpin-pemimpin mereka. Beramai-ramai mereka memasukkan uang pajak mereka ke dalam kotak itu.

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.

¹¹Setiap hari kotak itu dibawa oleh orang-orang Lewi kepada pegawai raja untuk diperiksa. Apabila kotak itu telah penuh sekretaris negara dan wakil Imam Agung mengeluarkan uangnya lalu kotak itu dikembalikan ke tempatnya yang semula. Demikianlah mereka lakukan setiap hari, dan banyak sekali uang yang terkumpul.

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.

¹²Kemudian raja dan Yoyada menyerahkan uang itu kepada orang-orang yang mengepalai perbaikan Rumah TUHAN itu. Lalu orang-orang itu mengupah tukang batu, tukang kayu, dan tukang logam untuk mengerjakan pekerjaan itu.

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.

¹³Maka mulailah tukang-tukang itu memperbaiki Rumah TUHAN itu. Mereka semua bekerja begitu sehingga akhirnya Rumah itu menjadi kuat dan bagus seperti semula.

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.

¹⁴Setelah pekerjaan itu selesai, emas dan perak yang selebihnya diserahkan kepada raja dan Yoyada. Lalu emas dan perak itu dipakai untuk membuat perkakas-perkakas bagi Rumah TUHAN, antara lain: alat-alat untuk upacara ibadat, untuk kurban bakaran, piring-piring untuk dupa, dan mangkuk-mangkuk. Selama Imam Yoyada masih hidup, kurban bakaran tetap dipersembahkan di Rumah TUHAN.

¹⁵But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died.

¹⁵Yoyada mencapai usia yang lanjut dan meninggal ketika berumur 130 tahun.

¹⁶They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

¹⁶Ia dikuburkan di makam raja-raja di Kota Daud untuk menghargai jasa-jasanya kepada Allah, kepada Rumah TUHAN dan kepada umat Israel.

¹⁷Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.

¹⁷Setelah Yoyada meninggal, Yoas dibujuk dan dipengaruhi oleh pemimpin-pemimpin Yehuda sehingga ia tidak lagi mengindahkan ajaran Yoyada.

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.

¹⁸Maka rakyat tidak lagi beribadat di Rumah TUHAN, Allah leluhur mereka, tetapi menyembah berhala dan patung-patung Dewi Asyera. Dosa mereka itu menyebabkan TUHAN marah kepada Yehuda dan Yerusalem.

¹⁹Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

¹⁹TUHAN mengutus nabi-nabi untuk menegur mereka supaya kembali mengabdi kepada TUHAN, tetapi rakyat tidak mau mendengarkan.

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.’”

²⁰Lalu Roh Allah menguasai Zakharia anak Imam Yoyada. Zakharia tampil di depan rakyat, lalu berseru, "TUHAN Allah berkata, 'Mengapa kamu tidak taat kepada perintah-perintah-Ku dan mencelakakan dirimu sendiri. Kamu tidak peduli kepada-Ku, maka Aku pun tidak peduli kepadamu!'"

²¹They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.

²¹Tetapi rakyat berkomplot menentang Zakharia, dan Raja Yoas ikut dalam komplotan itu. Ia tidak ingat akan jasa-jasa dan kesetiaan Yoyada, ayah Zakharia. Atas perintah raja, Zakharia dilempari batu sampai mati di pelataran Rumah TUHAN. Pada saat akan meninggal, Zakharia berseru, "Semoga TUHAN melihat perbuatanmu ini dan membalasnya!"

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.”

²²(24:21)

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.

²³Tahun itu juga, pada pergantian musim, tentara Siria menyerang Yehuda dan Yerusalem. Mereka membunuh semua pemimpin dan mengangkut banyak barang rampasan ke Damsyik.

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.

²⁴Tentara Siria sedikit saja jumlahnya, tetapi TUHAN membiarkan mereka mengalahkan tentara Yehuda yang jauh lebih besar, karena orang Yehuda tidak menghiraukan TUHAN Allah leluhur mereka. Dengan cara itu TUHAN menghukum Raja Yoas.

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.

²⁵Yoas luka berat. Setelah tentara musuh pergi, dua orang pegawainya berkomplot. Mereka membunuh dia di tempat tidurnya sebagai balasan terhadap pembunuhan anak Imam Yoyada. Raja Yoas dikuburkan di Kota Daud, tetapi tidak di makam raja-raja.

²⁶These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

²⁶(Orang-orang yang berkomplot melawan dia adalah Zabad anak Simeat wanita Amon, dan Yozabad anak Simrit wanita Moab.)

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.

²⁷Kisah mengenai anak-anak Yoas, mengenai ramalan-ramalan yang tidak baik tentang dia, dan mengenai bagaimana ia memperbaiki Rumah TUHAN, semuanya tercantum dalam buku Penjelasan Kitab Raja-raja. Amazia, putra Yoas, menjadi raja menggantikan ayahnya.