II Kings 12

ben-sheva shanim yeho'ash bemolkho

Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

bishnat-sheva leyehu malakh yeho'ash ve'arba'im shanah malakh birushalai͏m veshem immo tsivyah mibbe'er shava

Jehoash began his reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

vayya'as yeho'ash hayyashar be'ene Adonai kol-yamayw asher horahu yehoyada hakkohen

All his days Jehoash did what was pleasing to GOD, as the priest Jehoiada instructed him.

raq habbamot lo-saru od ha'am mezabbekhim umeqatterim babbamot

The shrines, however, were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and offer at the shrines.

vayyomer yeho'ash el-hakkohanim kol kesef haqqodashim asher-yuva vet-Adonai kesef over ish kesef nafshot erko kol-kesef asher ya'aleh al lev-ish lehavi bet Adonai

Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money, current money, brought into the House of GOD as sacred donations—any money that someone may pay as the money equivalent of persons, or any other money that someone may be minded to bring to the House of GOD—

yiqkhu lahem hakkohanim ish me'et makkaro vehem yekhazzequ et-bedeq habbayit lekhol asher-yimmatse sham badeq

let the priests receive it, each from his benefactor; they, in turn, shall make repairs on the House, wherever damage may be found.”

vayehi bishnat esrim veshalosh shanah lammelekh yeho'ash lo-khizzequ hakkohanim et-bedeq habbayit

But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, [it was found that] the priests had not made the repairs on the House.

vayyiqra hammelekh yeho'ash lihoyada hakkohen velakkohanim vayyomer alehem maddua enekhem mekhazzeqim et-bedeq habbayit ve'attah al-tiqkhu-khesef me'et makkarekhem ki-levedeq habbayit tittenuhu

So King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada and the other priests and said to them, “Why have you not kept the House in repair? Now do not accept money from your benefactors anymore, but have it donated for the repair of the House.”

vayye'otu hakkohanim levilti qekhat-kesef me'et ha'am ulevilti khazzeq et-bedeq habbayit

The priests agreed that they would neither accept money from the people nor make repairs on the House.

vayyiqqakh yehoyada hakkohen aron ekhad vayyiqqov khor bedalto vayyitten oto etsel hammizbeakh (vymyn) [miyyamin] bevo-ish bet Adonai venatenu-shammah hakkohanim shomere hassaf et-kol-hakkesef hammuva vet-Adonai

And the priest Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it at the right side of the altar as one entered the House of GOD, and the priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought into the House of GOD.

vayehi kirotam ki-rav hakkesef ba'aron vayya'al sofer hammelekh vehakkohen haggadol vayyatsuru vayyimnu et-hakkesef hannimtsa vet-Adonai

Whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would come up and put the money accumulated in the House of GOD into bags, and they would count it.

venatenu et-hakkesef hametukkan al-[yede] (yd) ose hammelakhah (hfqdym) [hammufqadim] bet Adonai vayyotsi'uhu lekharashe ha'ets velabbonim ha'osim bet Adonai

Then they would deliver the money that was weighed out to the overseers of the work, who were in charge of the House of GOD. These, in turn, used to pay the carpenters and the laborers who worked on the House of GOD,

velaggoderim ulekhotseve ha'even veliqnot etsim ve'avne makhtsev lekhazzeq et-bedeq bet-Adonai ulekhol asher-yetse al-habbayit lekhozqah

and the masons and the stonecutters. They also paid for wood and for quarried stone with which to make the repairs on the House of GOD, and for every other expenditure that had to be made in repairing the House.

akh lo ye'aseh bet Adonai sippot kesef mezammerot mizraqot khatsotserot kol-keli zahav ukheli-khasef min-hakkesef hammuva vet-Adonai

However, no silver bowls and no snuffers, basins, or trumpets—no vessels of gold or silver—were made at the House of GOD from the money brought into the House of GOD;

ki-le'ose hammelakhah yittenuhu vekhizzequ-vo et-bet Adonai

this was given only to the overseers of the work for the repair of the House of GOD.

velo yekhashevu et-ha'anashim asher yittenu et-hakkesef al-yadam latet le'ose hammelakhah ki ve'emunah hem osim

No check was kept on those to whom the money was delivered to pay the workers; for they dealt honestly.

kesef asham vekhesef khatta'ot lo yuva bet Adonai lakkohanim yihyu

Money brought as a reparation offering or as a purgation offering was not deposited in the House of GOD; it went to the priests.

az ya'aleh khaza'el melekh aram vayyillakhem al-gat vayyilkedah vayyasem khaza'el panayw la'alot al-yerushalai͏m

At that time, King Hazael of Aram came up and attacked Gath and captured it; and Hazael proceeded to march on Jerusalem.

vayyiqqakh yeho'ash melekh-yehudah et kol-haqqodashim asher-hiqdishu yehoshafat vihoram va'akhazyahu avotayw malkhe yehudah ve'et-qodashayw ve'et kol-hazzahav hannimtsa be'otserot bet-Adonai uvet hammelekh vayyishlakh lakhaza'el melekh aram vayya'al me'al yerushalai͏m

Thereupon King Joash of Judah took all the objects that had been consecrated by his predecessors, Kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah of Judah, and by himself, and all the gold that there was in the treasuries of the Temple of GOD and in the royal palace, and he sent them to King Hazael of Aram, who then turned back from his march on Jerusalem.

veyeter divre yo'ash vekhol-asher asah halo-hem ketuvim al-sefer divre hayyamim lemalkhe yehudah

The other events of Joash’s reign, and all his actions, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

vayyaqumu avadayw vayyiqsheru-qasher vayyakku et-yo'ash bet millo hayyored silla

His courtiers formed a conspiracy against Joash and assassinated him at Beth-millo that leads down to Silla.

veyozakhar ben-shimat vihozavad ben-shomer avadayw hikkuhu vayyamot vayyiqberu oto im-avotayw be'ir david vayyimlokh amatsyah veno takhtayw

The courtiers who assassinated him were Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David; and his son Amaziah succeeded him as king.