2 Koenige 12
1 Im siebten Jahre Jehus ward Joas König, und vierzig Jahre regierte er zu Jerusalem. Seine Mutter hieß Sibja und war aus Beerseba.
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 Joas tat, was dem Herrn gefiel, solange ihn der Priester Jojada unterwies.
All his life, he did what pleased Yahweh, because Jehoiada the priest instructed/taught him.
3 Nur die Höhen wurden nicht abgeschafft. Das Volk opferte und räucherte noch immer auf den Höhen.
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 Joas sprach nun zu den Priestern: "Der Weihegaben ganzes Geld, das ins Haus des Herrn als schätzbares Silber gebracht wird, das Geld der Musterungspflichtigen, alles, was jemand freiwillig ins Haus des Herrn bringt,
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 das sollen die Priester für sich nehmen, jeder von seinen Bekannten! Sie sollen dafür den Schaden am Hause ausbessern, alles, woran sich ein Schaden findet!"
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 Im dreiundzwanzigsten Jahre des Königs Joas aber hatten die Priester noch immer nicht den Schaden am Hause ausgebessert.
But after Joash had been ruling for almost twenty-three years, the priests still had not repaired anything in the temple.
7 Da berief der König Joas den Priester Jojada samt den anderen Priestern und fragte sie: "Warum bessert ihr nicht am Hause den Schaden aus? Nehmt kein Geld mehr von euren Bekannten an! Ihr sollt es vielmehr zur Ausbesserung am Hause verwenden!"
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 Die Priester willigten ein, kein Geld mehr vom Volke anzunehmen, ohne zugleich am Hause den Schaden auszubessern.
The priests agreed to do that, and they also agreed that they themselves would not do the repair work.
9 Dann nahm der Priester Jojada eine Lade, bohrte ein Loch in den Deckel und stellte sie rechts neben den Altar. Kam nun jemand in das Haus des Herrn, so taten die priesterlichen Schwellenhüter alles Geld hinein, das in das Haus des Herrn gebracht ward.
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 Wenn sie nun sahen, daß in der Lade viel Geld war, kam des Königs Schreiber mit dem Hohenpriester herauf. Sie packten das Geld zusammen und zählten, was sich im Hause des Herrn fand.
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 Dann übergaben sie das abgewogene Geld den Werkführern, die am Hause des Herrn die Aufsicht führten. Diese verausgabten es an die Zimmerleute und Bauleute, die am Hause des Herrn arbeiteten,
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 an die Holzfäller und Steinbrecher, und zum Ankauf von Holz und Bruchsteinen, um am Hause des Herrn den Schaden auszubessern, kurz, zu allem, was die Ausbesserung des Hauses kostete.
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 Doch wurden für des Herrn Haus keine silbernen Becken, Messer, Sprengschalen und Trompeten gemacht noch irgendein anderes goldenes oder silbernes Gerät von dem Gelde, das in das Haus des Herrn gebracht wurde.
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 Man gab es nur den Arbeitern, daß sie das Haus des Herrn davon ausbesserten.
All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
15 Mit den Männern aber, denen man das Geld aushändigte, daß sie es den Arbeitern gäben, rechnete man nicht ab. Sie walteten eben auf Treu und Glauben.
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 Nicht in das Haus des Herrn ward das Geld von Schuld- und Sündopfern gebracht; es gehörte den Priestern.
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 Damals zog Arams König Chazael heran, stritt wider Gar und nahm es ein. Dann machte Chazael Miene, Jerusalem anzugreifen.
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 Da nahm Judas König Joas alle Weihegaben, die Josaphat, Joram und Achazja, seine Väter, Judas Könige, gestiftet hatten, samt den eigenen Weihegaben, sowie alles Geld, das sich in den Schatzkammern im Haus des Herrn und im Königshaus fand, und sandte es Arams König Chazael. Da zog er von Jerusalem ab.
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 Ist nicht der Rest der Geschichte des Joas und alles, was er sonst getan, im Geschichtsbuche der Könige Judas aufgezeichnet?
[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 Seine Diener erhoben sich, machten eine Verschwörung und erschlugen Joas im Basteihaus, das zur Steige abfällt.
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 Jozakar, Simats Sohn, und Somers Sohn Jozabad, seine Diener, schlugen ihn tot. Dann begrub man ihn bei seinen Vätern in der Davidsstadt. Und sein Sohn Amasja ward an seiner Statt König.
