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1 Israel lengpa Jehu lengchan kal kum sagi alhinin, Joash in Judahte leng achangin ahi. Amahin Jerusalem’ah kum somli lengvai ana po in ahi. Anu chu Zibiah ahin, Beersheba khomi ahi.
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].
2 Joash in ahinkho lhumkeijin Pakai mitmu’n thilpha jeng anabollin ahi, ajeh chu ama chu Jehoiada thempun ana khoukhah jing jeh ahi.
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
3 Ahijing vang'in aman pathen dang kithoina doikhum ho ana sumangpon ahi, hiti chun mipihon kithoina gantha hole halnam ho anabol jingun ahi.
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].
4 Nikhat hi Joash leng pan thempuho kom’ah, “Pakai houin na hung kitohdoh sum jouse ahin, mihem in amichangvala ahinto doh sum jouse ahin, mihem ama ama lungthim sung cheh a thanopna aneiya Pakai houin sunga ahinto doh sum jouse ahin abonchan khol tup un,” ati.
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.
5 “Hiche sumho lah a kon hin phabep hi thempuhon la-u henlang, angaichat dungjuiya houin semphatna in mang u hen,” ati.
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.”
6 Ahinlah Joash vaipohna kum somni le thum channa geijin jong thempuhon houin semphatna natoh ima anapan polaiyun ahi.
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
7 Hijeh chun Joash lengpan Jehoiada leh thempu dangho akoukhom in, “Ipi dinga houin nasemphat loulai uham? Sum hohi nangho phatchomna dingin moh manchatvai ta hih un, tuapat vang'in hiche sumho hi houin semphatna dinga aboncha naman diu ahi” ati.
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!”
8 Hiti chun thempuhon mipiho akona sumlah tahlou dingin akilol un, chuleh houin semphatna dinga mopohna jonghi midang nganse dingin anom tauvin ahi.
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
9 Hichun Jehoiada thempupan thih thingkong lentah khat asem’in, asin avitvangin hichu Pakai houin hunglutna maicham jetlang sanga chun akoijin ahi. Hichun thempu kotngah a pangho chun, mipi sumto hochu alauvin thingkong sunga chun ahenglut jiuvin ahi.
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.
10 Hiche thingkong chu adimphat leh, leng insunga kimang cha lekhajihpa leh thempulen pa chun Pakai houin’a hung kitohdoh dangka ho chu asimtohji lhonin, chujouteng chule khaodip khatna akhumji lhon in ahi.
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.
11 Chujouteng le sum chu Pakai houin semphatna a vaipo ho khutna apedohji lhonin, amahon Pakai houin semphatna a natong ho apekit jiuvin ahi. Amaho chu, thinghem bolho leh insaho,
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,
12 Thing vaibo hole song kheng ho, apeuvin ahi. Amahon sum chu Pakai houin semphatna dia thing le song kikheng chaise ho chohnan jong amang un, chujongleh houin kisah phat nadia manna ding jousen jong ana mang Chauvin ahi.
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.
13 Hiche sum, houin a hunglut hochu, houin sunga manchah ding kisilna dangka kong ahin, thaomeija manchah ding chaiche ahin, konglenho le khon ho ahin, sumkon chuleh san le dangka a kisem thil adang dang ho akisemnan khatcha akimang pon ahi.
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.
14 Sum chu Houin semphatna a natong hike manchah thil chohnan bou aki mangcha ji ahi.
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
15 Hiche natohna a kimangcha ho vesuija panghohi milungtheng leh tahsan theitah ngen ahijeh un, Jehu in sum kiman chahna hochu dihnam tia kholtoh ding ngaikhoh asapon ahi.
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.
16 Ahinlah suhkhelna holeh chosetnaho thoidamna dinga hung kitohdoh hovang Pakai houin’ah ahunglut jipon, hiche hochu thempuho apeh jiuva amahon adeidan danna akiman chah jiu ahitai.
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.
17 Hiche phat laitah hin, Syria lengpa Hazael chu Gath sat dingin akonin ajouvin alenggam sung ah akilahlut tan ahi. Hihe jouchun ahung kinunglen Jerusalem nokhum ding agotan ahi.
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.
18 Hichun Joash lengpan ama masanga Judah lengho, Jehoshaphat in Pathenna anakatdoh thengho, Jehoram, Ahaziah chuleh amatah in anakatdoh thengho jouse chu achom khomin, Pakai houin leh leng inpia sumkholna muna sana ho jouse toh abonchan Hazael chu athot tan ahi. Hichun Hazael in Jerusalem anokhum got chu anokhum tapon ahi.
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.
19 Joash vaihom sunga thilsoh ho jouse leh anatoh, athilbolho jouse chu Judah lengte thusim kijihna lekhabua aumsoh keijin ahi.
[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’.
20 Joash chu anoija natong pipuihon ama dounan tohgon ana neijun, Silla jotna Beth-millo lamlen nah ana that tauvin ahi.
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.
21 Ama ana that hochu Shimeath chapa Jozacar leh Shomer chapa Jehozabad ahilhone, amani hi ani lhonahi lengpa dinga tahsan umtah lengpa thumop’a pang anahi lhonin ahi. Joash chu David khopi ah apu apate kivui na a ana kivuitan ahi.
