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.
Tempļa sienu labošana
(2L 24:1–14)1 Jehoāšs sāka valdīt septiņu gadu vecumā.
2 Jehus septītajā gadā Jehoāšs sāka valdīt un valdīja Jeruzālemē četrdesmit gadus. Viņa mātes vārds bija Cibja no Bēršebas. 3 Visu mūžu Jehoāšs darīja to, kas tīkams Kungam. Viņu mācīja priesteris Jehojāda. 4 Tikai augstieņu altārus viņš nenovāca. Tauta joprojām upurēja un kvēpināja augstieņu altāros. 5 Jehoāšs sacīja priesteriem: “Visu tempļa naudu, kas ienāk Kunga namā, kas vien tur ir apritē, visas galvasnaudas un visu brīvprātīgi doto naudu, kas no sirds ziedota Kunga namam, 6 priesteri lai ņem no tiem, kurus pazīst, un izlieto nama mūru plaisu labošanai – visu, kas tur ir labojams!”
7 Ķēniņa Jehoāša divdesmit trešajā gadā priesteri nama plaisas vēl nebija aizdarījuši. 8 Tad ķēniņš Jehoāšs sauca priesteri Jehojādu, pārējos priesterus un tiem sacīja: “Kāpēc jūs neesat aizdarījuši nama plaisas? Tagad jūs vairs neņemsiet naudu no tiem, kurus pazīstat, bet nodosiet to nama plaisu aizdarītājiem!” 9 Priesteri piekrita neņemt naudu no tautas un nenodarboties ar nama plaisu aizdarīšanu.
10 Priesteris Jehojāda ņēma lādi, izurba vākā caurumu un nolika to blakus altārim labajā pusē. Kad vien kāds ienāca Kunga namā, priesteri, durvju sargi, tur ielika visu naudu, kas ienāca Kunga namā. 11 Kad tie redzēja, ka lādē ir daudz naudas, nāca ķēniņa rakstvedis un augstais priesteris – viņi savāca un saskaitīja visu naudu, kas bija Kunga namā. 12 Saskaitīto naudu viņi deva Kunga nama darbu pārraugiem. Tie izmaksāja to kokgriezējiem un namdariem, kas strādāja Kunga namā, 13 mūrniekiem un akmeņkaļiem – koku iegādei un akmeņu tēšanai, lai aizdarītu Kunga nama plaisas, kā arī visiem citiem izdevumiem, kas namam bija nepieciešami. 14 Taču no Kunga namā ienākušās naudas Kunga namam netaisīja ne sudraba bļodas, ne dzirkles, ne laistāmos traukus, ne taures, ne zelta traukus, ne sudraba traukus. 15 To deva darbu pārraugiem, kuri aizdarīja Kunga nama plaisas. 16 Tiem vīriem, kuriem deva naudu, lai to izmaksātu strādniekiem, norēķinus neprasīja, jo tie bija uzticami. 17 Bet nauda no vainas izpirkšanas un grēku upuriem Kunga namā netika nesta, tā bija priesteriem.
Hazaēls apdraud Jeruzālemi
18 Tajā laikā Arāmas ķēniņš Hazaēls karoja pret Gatu un to ieņēma. Tad Hazaēls nolēma doties pret Jeruzālemi. 19 Un Jūdas ķēniņš Jehoāšs ņēma visas svētās dāvanas, ko bija devuši Jūdas ķēniņi Jehošāfāts, Jehorāms, viņa tēvs Ahazjāhu, kā arī savas dāvanas – visu zeltu, kas atradās Kunga namā un ķēniņa nama mantnīcās, – un sūtīja tās Arāmas ķēniņam Hazaēlam, un tas aizgāja no Jeruzālemes.
Jehoāša nāve
(2L 24:23–27)20 Pārējie Jehoāša darbi un viss, ko viņš darīja, – vai tad par to nav rakstīts Jūdas ķēniņu Laiku grāmatā? 21 Viņa kalpi cēlās un sazvērējās pret viņu, un nokāva Jehoāšu Millo namā – no turienes iet lejā uz Sillu. 22 Viņa kalpi Jehozābāds, Šimāta dēls, un Jehozābāds, Šomera dēls, nokāva viņu, un viņš nomira. Viņu apbedīja pie tēviem Dāvida pilsētā, un viņa dēls Amacjāhu sāka valdīt pēc viņa.
