1 anno septimo Hieu regnavit Ioas
quadraginta annis regnavit in Hierusalem
nomen matris eius Sebia de Bersabee
2 fecitque Ioas rectum coram Domino
cunctis diebus quibus docuit eum Ioiada sacerdos
3 verumtamen excelsa non abstulit
adhuc populus immolabat et adolebat in excelsis incensum
4 dixitque Ioas ad sacerdotes
omnem pecuniam sanctorum
quae inlata fuerit in templum Domini a praetereuntibus
quae offertur pro pretio animae
et quam sponte et arbitrio cordis sui inferunt in templum Domini
5 accipiant illam sacerdotes iuxta ordinem suum
et instaurent sarta tecta domus
si quid necessarium viderint instauratione
6 igitur usque ad vicesimum tertium annum regis Ioas
non instauraverunt sacerdotes sarta tecta templi
7 vocavitque rex Ioas Ioiada pontificem et sacerdotes dicens
eis
quare sarta tecta non instaurastis templi
nolite ergo amplius accipere pecuniam iuxta ordinem vestrum
sed ad instaurationem templi reddite eam
8 prohibitique sunt sacerdotes ultra accipere pecuniam a populo
et instaurare sarta tecta domus
9 et tulit Ioiada pontifex gazofilacium unum
aperuitque foramen desuper
et posuit illud iuxta altare
ad dexteram ingredientium domum Domini
mittebantque in eo sacerdotes qui custodiebant ostia
omnem pecuniam quae deferebatur ad templum Domini
10 cumque viderent nimiam pecuniam esse in gazofilacio
ascendebat scriba regis et pontifex
effundebantque et numerabant pecuniam
quae inveniebatur in domo Domini
11 et dabant eam iuxta numerum atque mensuram
in manu eorum qui praeerant cementariis domus Domini
qui inpendebant eam in fabris lignorum et in cementariis
his qui operabantur in domo Domini
12 et sarta tecta faciebant
et in his qui caedebant saxa
et ut emerent ligna et lapides qui excidebantur
ita ut impleretur instauratio domus Domini
in universis quae indigebant expensa ad muniendam domum
13 verumtamen non fiebant ex eadem pecunia hydriae templi Domini
et fuscinulae et turibula et tubae
omne vas aureum et argenteum
de pecunia quae inferebatur in templum Domini
14 his enim qui faciebant opus dabatur
ut instauraretur templum Domini
15 et non fiebat ratio his hominibus qui accipiebant pecuniam
ut distribuerent eam artificibus
sed in fide tractabant eam
16 pecuniam vero pro delicto et pecuniam pro peccatis
non inferebant in templum Domini quia sacerdotum erat
17 tunc ascendit Azahel rex Syriae
et pugnabat contra Geth cepitque eam
et direxit faciem suam ut ascenderet in Hierusalem
18 quam ob rem tulit Ioas rex Iuda omnia sanctificata
quae consecraverant Iosaphat et Ioram et Ahazia
patres eius reges Iuda
et quae ipse obtulerat
et universum argentum
quod inveniri potuit in thesauris templi Domini et in palatio regis
misitque Azaheli regi Syriae et recessit ab Hierusalem
19 reliqua autem sermonum Ioas et universa quae fecit
nonne haec scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Iuda
20 surrexerunt autem servi eius et coniuraverunt inter se
percusseruntque Ioas in domo Mello in descensu Sela
21 Iozachar namque filius Semath et Iozabad filius Somer servi eius
percusserunt eum et mortuus est
et sepelierunt eum cum patribus suis in civitate David
regnavitque Amasias filius eius pro eo
1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4 ¶ And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account , the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD, 5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. 6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD. 10 And it was so , when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD. 11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD, 12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it . 13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD: 14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD. 15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. 16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
17 ¶ Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
19 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. 21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.