2 Tawarikh 24

¹Yoas berumur tujuh tahun pada waktu ia menjadi raja, dan empat puluh tahun lamanya ia memerintah di Yerusalem. Nama ibunya ialah Zibya, dari Bersyeba.

¹Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

²Yoas melakukan apa yang benar di mata TUHAN selama hidup imam Yoyada.

²And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

³Yoyada mengambil dua orang isteri bagi dia; dari mereka ia mendapat anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan.

³Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

⁴Kemudian Yoas bermaksud untuk membaharui rumah TUHAN.

⁴After this Joash decided to restore the house of the LORD.

⁵Ia mengumpulkan para imam dan orang Lewi dan berkata kepada mereka: "Pergilah kamu ke kota-kota Yehuda dan kumpulkanlah uang dari seluruh orang Israel untuk memperbaiki rumah Allahmu setiap tahun. Lakukanlah hal itu dengan segera!" Tetapi orang Lewi itu tidak melakukannya dengan segera.

⁵And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly." But the Levites did not act quickly.

⁶Lalu raja memanggil imam kepala Yoyada dan bertanya kepadanya: "Mengapa engkau tidak menuntut kepada orang-orang Lewi untuk membawa dari Yehuda dan dari Yerusalem pajak yang dikenakan Musa, hamba Allah itu, kepada jemaah Israel untuk Kemah tempat hukum Allah?

⁶So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?"

⁷Sebab anak-anak Atalya, perempuan fasik itu, telah membongkar rumah Allah, bahkan memakai barang-barang kudus rumah TUHAN untuk para Baal."

⁷For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Baals.

⁸Sesudah itu raja memerintahkan supaya dibuat sebuah peti dan ditempatkan di depan pintu gerbang rumah TUHAN,

⁸So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.

⁹lalu menyuruh mengumumkan di Yehuda dan di Yerusalem, bahwa orang harus membawa bagi TUHAN pajak yang dikenakan Musa, hamba Allah itu, kepada orang Israel di padang gurun.

⁹And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

¹⁰Maka bersukacitalah semua pemimpin dan seluruh rakyat; mereka datang membawa pajaknya dan memasukkannya ke dalam peti itu sampai penuh.

¹⁰And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.

¹¹Setiap kali peti itu dibawa masuk untuk diperiksa oleh orang-orang Lewi atas nama raja, dan apabila mereka melihat bahwa sudah banyak uang di dalamnya, maka datanglah panitera raja dan kuasa usaha imam kepala mengeluarkan isi peti itu; kemudian mereka mengangkat peti itu, lalu menaruhnya pula di tempatnya. Demikianlah mereka lakukan setiap kali, dan banyaklah uang yang dikumpulkan.

¹¹And whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king's secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.

¹²Raja dan Yoyada menyerahkan uang itu kepada mereka yang memanduri pekerjaan pada rumah TUHAN. Mereka ini mengupah tukang-tukang pahat dan tukang-tukang kayu untuk membaharui rumah TUHAN; juga tukang-tukang besi dan tembaga untuk memperbaiki rumah TUHAN.

¹²And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

¹³Setelah itu mulailah tukang-tukang itu bekerja; pekerjaan perbaikan maju di bawah tangan mereka. Mereka membangun kembali rumah Allah menurut keadaannya semula dan mengokohkannya.

¹³So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.

¹⁴Setelah mereka selesai, mereka membawa uang yang kelebihan kepada raja dan Yoyada. Uang itu dipakai untuk membuat perkakas-perkakas rumah TUHAN, yakni: perkakas-perkakas untuk penyelenggaraan kebaktian, perkakas-perkakas untuk korban bakaran, juga cawan-cawan dan perkakas-perkakas emas dan perak. Sepanjang umur Yoyada korban bakaran tetap dipersembahkan dalam rumah TUHAN.

¹⁴And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD regularly all the days of Jehoiada.

¹⁵Yoyada menjadi tua, dan lanjut umur, lalu matilah ia. Seratus tiga puluh tahun umurnya ketika ia mati.

¹⁵But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death.

¹⁶Ia dikuburkan di kota Daud di samping raja-raja, karena perbuatan-perbuat yang baik di Israel terhadap Allah dan rumah-Nya.

¹⁶And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

¹⁷Sesudah Yoyada mati, pemimpin-pemimpin Yehuda datang menyembah kepada raja. Sejak itu raja mendengarkan mereka.

¹⁷Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.

¹⁸Mereka meninggalkan rumah TUHAN, Allah nenek moyang mereka, lalu beribadah kepada tiang-tiang berhala dan patung-patung berhala. Oleh karena kesalahan itu Yehuda dan Yerusalem tertimpa murka.

¹⁸And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

¹⁹Namun TUHAN mengutus nabi-nabi kepada mereka, supaya mereka berbalik kepada-Nya. Nabi-nabi itu sungguh-sungguh memperingatkan mereka, tetapi mereka tidak mau mendengarkannya.

¹⁹Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.

²⁰Lalu Roh Allah menguasai Zakharia, anak imam Yoyada. Ia tampil di depan rakyat, dan berkata kepada mereka: "Beginilah firman Allah: Mengapa kamu melanggar perintah-perintah TUHAN, sehingga kamu tidak beruntung? Oleh karena kamu meninggalkan TUHAN, Iapun meninggalkan kamu!"

²⁰Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.'"

²¹Tetapi mereka mengadakan persepakatan terhadap dia, dan atas perintah raja mereka melontari dia dengan batu di pelataran rumah TUHAN.

²¹But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.

²²Raja Yoas tidak mengingat kesetiaan yang ditunjukkan Yoyada, ayah Zakharia itu, terhadap dirinya. Ia membunuh anak Yoyada itu, yang pada saat kematiannya berseru: "Semoga TUHAN melihatnya dan menuntut balas!"

²²Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, "May the LORD see and avenge!"

²³Pada pergantian tahun tentara Aram maju menyerang Yoas dan masuk ke Yehuda dan Yerusalem. Dari bangsa itu semua pemimpin habis dibunuh mereka dan segala jarahan dikirim mereka kepada raja negeri Damsyik.

²³At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

²⁴Walaupun tentara Aram itu datang dengan sedikit orang, namun TUHAN menyerahkan tentara yang sangat besar kepada mereka, karena orang Yehuda telah meninggalkan TUHAN, Allah nenek moyang mereka. Demikianlah orang Aram melakukan penghukuman kepada Yoas.

²⁴Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.

²⁵Ketika mereka pergi dari padanya, --mereka meninggalkannya dengan luka-luka berat--pegawai-pegawainya mengadakan persepakatan terhadap dia karena darah anak imam Yoyada itu, lalu membunuhnya di atas tempat tidurnya. Ia mati dan dikuburkan di kota Daud, tetapi tidak di pekuburan raja-raja.

²⁵When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

²⁶Mereka yang mengadakan persepakatan terhadap dia ialah: Zabad, anak Simeat perempuan Amon, dan Yozabad, anak Simrit perempuan Moab.

²⁶Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.

²⁷Tentang anak-anaknya dan ucapan-ucapan ilahi yang banyak terhadap dia, serta tentang perbaikan rumah Allah, semua itu tertulis dalam tafsiran kitab raja-raja. Maka Amazia, anaknya, menjadi raja menggantikan dia.

²⁷Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.