In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
只是邱壇還沒有廢去，百姓仍在那裏獻祭燒香。
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed — the money from the assessment of persons — and the money that a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,
你們當從所認識的人收了來，修理殿的一切破壞之處。」
let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”
無奈到了
But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house.
所以
Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”
眾祭司答應不再收百姓的銀子，也不修理殿的破壞之處。
So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
祭司
Then 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 entered the house of the LORD. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
他們見櫃裏的銀子多了，便叫王的書記和大祭司上來，將耶和華殿裏的銀子數算包起來。
And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
把所平的銀子交給督工的，就是耶和華殿裏辦事的人；他們把銀子轉交修理耶和華殿的木匠和工人，
Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD,
並瓦匠、石匠，又買木料和鑿成的石頭，修理耶和華殿的破壞之處，以及修理殿的各樣使用。
and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house.
但那奉到耶和華殿的銀子，沒有用以做耶和華殿裏的銀杯、蠟剪、碗、號，和別樣的金銀器皿，
But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,
乃將那銀子交給督工的人修理耶和華的殿；
for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.
且將銀子交給辦事的人轉交做工的人，不與他們算賬，因為他們辦事誠實。
And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
惟有贖愆祭、贖罪祭的銀子沒有奉到耶和華的殿，都歸祭司。
The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
那時，
At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,
Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.
Now 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?
His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
殺他的那臣僕就是
It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.