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فِي ٱلسَّنَةِ ٱلسَّابِعَةِ لِيَاهُو، مَلَكَ يَهُوآشُ. مَلَكَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَٱسْمُ أُمِّهِ ظَبْيَةُ مِنْ بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ. ١ 1
When Jehu had been ruling Israel for almost seven years, Joash became the king of Judah. He ruled in Jerusalem for 40 years. His mother was Zibiah, from Beersheba [city].
وَعَمِلَ يَهُوآشُ مَا هُوَ مُسْتَقِيمٌ فِي عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ كُلَّ أَيَّامِهِ ٱلَّتِي فِيهَا عَلَّمَهُ يَهُويَادَاعُ ٱلْكَاهِنُ، ٢ 2
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
إِلَّا أَنَّ ٱلْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ لَمْ تُنْتَزَعْ، بَلْ كَانَ ٱلشَّعْبُ لَا يَزَالُونَ يَذْبَحُونَ وَيُوقِدُونَ عَلَى ٱلْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ. ٣ 3
But the places where the people worshiped [Yahweh] on the tops of hills were not destroyed, and they continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense at those places, [instead of at the place that God had chosen for them in Jerusalem].
وَقَالَ يَهُوآشُ لِلْكَهَنَةِ: «جَمِيعُ فِضَّةِ ٱلْأَقْدَاسِ ٱلَّتِي أُدْخِلَتْ إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ، ٱلْفِضَّةُ ٱلرَّائِجَةُ، فِضَّةُ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ حَسَبَ ٱلنُّفُوسِ ٱلْمُقَوَّمَةِ، كُلُّ فِضَّةٍ يَخْطُرُ بِبَالِ إِنْسَانٍ أَنْ يُدْخِلَهَا إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ، ٤ 4
Joash said to the priests, “You must take all the money which the people contribute, both the money they are required to give and the money that they themselves decide to give, as sacred offerings to buy things for the temple.
لِيَأْخُذَهَا ٱلْكَهَنَةُ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ عِنْدِ صَاحِبِهِ، وَهُمْ يُرَمِّمُونَ مَا تَهَدَّمَ مِنَ ٱلْبَيْتِ، كُلَّ مَا وُجِدَ فِيهِ مُتَهَدِّمًا». ٥ 5
Each priest must take the money from people who know him (OR, from one of the treasurers), and he must use that money to repair the temple whenever he sees that there is something that needs to be repaired.”
وَفِي ٱلسَّنَةِ ٱلثَّالِثَةِ وَٱلْعِشْرِينَ لِلْمَلِكِ يَهُوآشَ لَمْ تَكُنِ ٱلْكَهَنَةُ رَمَّمُوا مَا تَهَدَّمَ مِنَ ٱلْبَيْتِ. ٦ 6
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
فَدَعَا ٱلْمَلِكُ يَهُوآشُ يَهُويَادَاعَ ٱلْكَاهِنَ وَٱلْكَهَنَةَ وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «لِمَاذَا لَمْ تُرَمِّمُوا مَا تَهَدَّمَ مِنَ ٱلْبَيْتِ؟ فَٱلْآنَ لَا تَأْخُذُوا فِضَّةً مِنْ عِنْدِ أَصْحَابِكُمْ، بَلِ ٱجْعَلُوهَا لِمَا تَهَدَّمَ مِنَ ٱلْبَيْتِ». ٧ 7
So Joash summoned Jehoiada and the other priests and said to them, “(Why are you not repairing things in the temple?/You should have been repairing things in the temple!) [RHQ] From now on, you must not keep the money that you receive from people who know you (OR, the treasurers). You must give it to the people who will be repairing things in the temple!”
فَوَافَقَ ٱلْكَهَنَةُ عَلَى أَنْ لَا يَأْخُذُوا فِضَّةً مِنَ ٱلشَّعْبِ، وَلَا يُرَمِّمُوا مَا تَهَدَّمَ مِنَ ٱلْبَيْتِ. ٨ 8
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
فَأَخَذَ يَهُويَادَاعُ ٱلْكَاهِنُ صُنْدُوقًا وَثَقَبَ ثَقْبًا فِي غِطَائِهِ، وَجَعَلَهُ بِجَانِبِ ٱلْمَذْبَحِ عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ عِنْدَ دُخُولِ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ. وَٱلْكَهَنَةُ حَارِسُو ٱلْبَابِ جَعَلُوا فِيهِ كُلَّ ٱلْفِضَّةِ ٱلْمُدْخَّلَةِ إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ. ٩ 9
Then Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in the lid. He placed it alongside the altar [for burning incense/sacrifices] that was on the right as anyone enters the temple. The priests who guarded the entrance to the temple put in the box the money that was brought to the temple.
وَكَانَ لَمَّا رَأَوْا ٱلْفِضَّةَ قَدْ كَثُرَتْ فِي ٱلصُّنْدُوقِ، أَنَّهُ صَعِدَ كَاتِبُ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَٱلْكَاهِنُ ٱلْعَظِيمُ وَصَرُّوا وَحَسَبُوا ٱلْفِضَّةَ ٱلْمَوْجُودَةَ فِي بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ. ١٠ 10
Whenever they saw that there was a lot of money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the Supreme Priest would come and count the money. Then they would put it in bags and tie the bags shut.
وَدَفَعُوا ٱلْفِضَّةَ ٱلْمَحْسُوبَةَ إِلَى أَيْدِي عَامِلِي ٱلشُّغْلِ ٱلْمُوَكَّلِينَ عَلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ، وَأَنْفَقُوهَا لِلنَّجَّارِينَ وَٱلْبَنَّائِينَ ٱلْعَامِلِينَ فِي بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ، ١١ 11
Then, after they weighed it, they would give the money to the men who supervised the work in the temple. Then the supervisors would use that money to pay the carpenters and builders who did the repair work in the temple,
وَلِبَنَّائِي ٱلْحِيطَانِ وَنَحَّاتِي ٱلْحِجَارَةِ، وَلِشِرَاءِ ٱلْأَخْشَابِ وَٱلْحِجَارَةِ ٱلْمَنْحُوتَةِ لِتَرْمِيمِ مَا تَهَدَّمَ مِنْ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ، وَلِكُلِّ مَا يُنْفَقُ عَلَى ٱلْبَيْتِ لِتَرْمِيمِهِ. ١٢ 12
and the masons and the stone cutters. Also with some of that money they bought timber and stones that had been cut to be used in the repair work, and to pay all the other expenses for the repair work.
إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَمْ يُعْمَلْ لِبَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ طُسُوسُ فِضَّةٍ وَلَا مِقَصَّاتٌ وَلَا مَنَاضِحُ وَلَا أَبْوَاقٌ، كُلُّ آنِيَةِ ٱلذَّهَبِ وَآنِيَةِ ٱلْفِضَّةِ مِنَ ٱلْفِضَّةِ ٱلدَّاخِلَةِ إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ، ١٣ 13
But they did not use any of that money [to pay men] to make silver cups or wick trimmers or bowls or trumpets or any other items made of silver or gold to be used in the temple.
بَلْ كَانُوا يَدْفَعُونَهَا لِعَامِلِي ٱلشُّغْلِ، فَكَانُوا يُرَمِّمُونَ بِهَا بَيْتَ ٱلرَّبِّ. ١٤ 14
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
وَلَمْ يُحَاسِبُوا ٱلرِّجَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ سَلَّمُوهُمُ ٱلْفِضَّةَ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ لِكَيْ يُعْطُوهَا لِعَامِلِي ٱلشُّغْلِ، لِأَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ بِأَمَانَةٍ. ١٥ 15
The men who supervised the work always did things honestly, so the king’s secretary and the Supreme Priest never required that the supervisors report what they had spent the money for.
وَأَمَّا فِضَّةُ ذَبِيحَةِ ٱلْإِثْمِ وَفِضَّةُ ذَبِيحَةِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ فَلَمْ تُدْخَلْ إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ، بَلْ كَانَتْ لِلْكَهَنَةِ. ١٦ 16
But the money that people gave to pay for the wrong things that they had done and the money they gave to purify themselves because of the sins that they had committed was not put in the chest. That money belonged to the priests.
حِينَئِذٍ صَعِدَ حَزَائِيلُ مَلِكُ أَرَامَ وَحَارَبَ جَتَّ وَأَخَذَهَا، ثُمَّ حَوَّلَ حَزَائِيلُ وَجْهَهُ لِيَصْعَدَ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ. ١٧ 17
At that time, Hazael, the king of Syria, went [with his army] and attacked Gath [city] and conquered it. Then he decided that they would attack Jerusalem.
فَأَخَذَ يَهُوآشُ مَلِكُ يَهُوذَا جَمِيعَ ٱلْأَقْدَاسِ ٱلَّتِي قَدَّسَهَا يَهُوشَافَاطُ وَيَهُورَامُ وَأَخَزْيَا آبَاؤُهُ مُلُوكُ يَهُوذَا، وَأَقْدَاسَهُ وَكُلَّ ٱلذَّهَبِ ٱلْمَوْجُودِ فِي خَزَائِنِ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَبَيْتِ ٱلْمَلِكِ، وَأَرْسَلَهَا إِلَى حَزَائِيلَ مَلِكِ أَرَامَ فَصَعِدَ عَنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ. ١٨ 18
So Joash, the king of Judah, took all the money that the previous kings, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, had dedicated to Yahweh. He added some of his own money, and all the gold that was in the rooms in the temple where valuable things were kept/stored, and the gold in his palace, and sent it all to King Hazael, [to (appease him/persuade him to not attack Jerusalem)]. So King Hazael [took his army] away from Jerusalem.
وَبَقِيَّةُ أُمُورِ يُوآشَ وَكُلُّ مَا عَمِلَ، أَمَا هِيَ مَكْتُوبَةٌ فِي سِفْرِ أَخْبَارِ ٱلْأَيَّامِ لِمُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا؟ ١٩ 19
[If you want to read more of] what Joash did, [it] is all written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
وَقَامَ عَبِيدُهُ وَفَتَنُوا فِتْنَةً وَقَتَلُوا يُوآشَ فِي بَيْتِ ٱلْقَلْعَةِ حَيْثُ يَنْزِلُ إِلَى سَلَّى. ٢٠ 20
Joash’s officials plotted against him, and two of them killed Joash on the road that goes down to [the] Silla [district]. The two men who did that were Jozabad, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer. Joash was buried in the place where his ancestors were buried, [in the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then Joash’s son Amaziah became the king of Judah.
لِأَنَّ يُوزَاكَارَ بْنَ شِمْعَةَ وَيَهُوزَابَادَ بْنَ شُومِيرَ عَبْدَيْهِ ضَرَبَاهُ فَمَاتَ، فَدَفَنُوهُ مَعَ آبَائِهِ فِي مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ، وَمَلَكَ أَمَصْيَا ٱبْنُهُ عِوَضًا عَنْهُ. ٢١ 21

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