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.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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,

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.”

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

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

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

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.”

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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,

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.

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.

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;

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,

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

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

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.

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

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’.

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

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

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,

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.