2 Књига о царевима 12

1 Седме године Јујеве поче царовати Јоас, и царова четрдесет година у Јерусалиму. Матери му беше име Сивија из Вирсавеје.

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 И чињаше Јоас што је право пред Господом докле га год учаше свештеник Јодај.

All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.

3 Али висине не бише оборене; народ још приношаше жртве и кађаше на висинама.

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 И Јоас рече свештеницима: Сав новац посвећени, што се доноси у дом Господњи, новац оних који иду у бој, и новац од уцене свачије, и сав новац што ко доноси од своје воље у дом Господњи.

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 Нека свештеници узимају, сваки од свог познаника, и они нека оправљају што је трошно у дому где се год нађе да треба оправити.

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 Али до године двадесет треће царовања Јоасовог свештеници још не оправише шта беше трошно у дому.

But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.

7 Тада цар Јоас дозва Јодаја свештеника и остале свештенике, и рече им: Зашто не оправљате што је трошно у дому? Одселе не узимајте новац од својих познаника, јер треба да вратите да се оправи што је трошно у дому.

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 И свештеници присташе да не узимају новац од народа и да не оправљају (они) што је трошно у дому.

The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.

9 Тада свештеник Јодај узе један ковчег, и прореза рупу на заклопцу, и метну га код олтара с десне стране како се улази у дом Господњи; и свештеници који чуваху врата меташе у њ све новце који се доношаху у дом Господњи.

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 А кад виђаху да има много новаца у ковчегу, тада долажаше писар царев с поглаваром свештеничким, и избројавши свезиваху новце који би се нашли у дому Господњем.

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 Потом даваху готове новце онима који управљаху послом и стараху се за дом Господњи, а они их издаваху дрводељама и посленицима који оправљаху дом Господњи,

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 И зидарима и каменарима, и да се добавља дрво и тесано камење, да се оправи шта беше трошно у дому Господњем, и да се добави све што требаше да се оправи дом.

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 Али новцима који доношаху у дом Господњи не грађаху чаша сребрних за дом Господњи, ни виљушака, ни котлића, ни труба, нити каквих судова златних ни сребрних;

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 Него их даваху онима који беху над послом да се оправи за њих дом Господњи.

All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.

15 И не тражаху рачуна од људи којима предаваху новце да издају посленицима, јер верно рађаху.

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 Новци за преступ и новци за грехе не доношаху се у дом Господњи; припадаху свештеницима.

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 Тада изађе Азаило, цар сирски, и удари на Гат и узе га; потом се окрете Азаило да иде на Јерусалим.

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 А Јоас, цар Јудин узе све посвећене ствари, што Јосафат и Јорам и Охозија, оци његови цареви Јудини, беху посветили, и све што сам беше посветио, и све злато што се нађе у ризницама дома Господњег и дома царевог, и посла Азаилу цару сирском; и тако отиде од Јерусалима.

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 А остала дела Јоасова и све што је чинио, није ли то записано у дневнику царева Јудиних?

[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 А слуге његове подигоше се и побунише се, и убише Јоаса у дому Милону, куда се иде у Силу.

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 Јоазахар, син Симеатов и Јозавад син Сомиров, слуге његове, убише га, те умре; и погребоше га код отаца његових у граду Давидовом; а на његово место зацари се Амасија, син његов.