4. Krallar 12

¹Yoaş kral olduğunda yedi yaşındaydı.

²Yehu'nun yedinci yılında Yoaş kral oldu ve Yeruşalim'de kırk yıl krallık yaptı; annesinin adı Beer-Şeva'dan Abia idi.

³Kâhin Yoyada kendisini aydınlattığı bütün günler boyunca Yoaş, Rab'bin gözünde doğru olanı yaptı.

⁴Ancak yüksek yerler kaldırılmadı; halk hâlâ orada, yüksek yerlerde kurban kesip buhur yakmaya devam ediyordu.

⁵Yoaş kâhinlere şöyle dedi: "Rab'bin tapınağına getirilen kutsal şeylerin tüm parası, yani takdir edilen değerin parası, her adamın takdir edilen değer karşılığı aldığı para ve her insanın Rab'bin tapınağına getirmeyi yüreğinden geçirdiği tüm para,

⁶kâhinler kendi satışlarından adam başına kendilerine alsınlar ve tapınakta nerede bir gedik bulunursa, tapınağın tüm gediklerini kendileri onarsınlar."

⁷Ancak Kral Yoaş'ın yirmi üçüncü yılına gelindiğinde, kâhinler tapınağın gediklerini henüz onarmamışlardı.

⁸Bunun üzerine Kral Yoaş, Kâhin Yoyada'yı ve diğer kâhinleri çağırıp onlara şöyle dedi: "Neden tapınağın gediklerini onarmıyorsunuz? Artık kendi satışlarınızdan para almayın, onu tapınağın gediklerinin onarımı için vereceksiniz."

⁹Kâhinler de halktan para almamayı ve tapınağın gediklerini kendileri onarmamayı kabul ettiler.

¹⁰Kâhin Yoyada bir sandık alıp kapağına bir delik açtı ve onu Rab'bin tapınağındaki sunağın yanına koydu; kapı nöbetçisi olan kâhinler, Rab'bin tapınağında bulunan bütün paraları bu sandığa koyuyorlardı.

¹¹Sandıkta çok para biriktiğini gördüklerinde, kralın yazıcısı ile başkâhin gelip Rab'bin tapınağında bulunan paraları torbalara doldurup saydılar.

¹²Sayılan parayı Rab'bin tapınağındaki işleri yöneten denetçilerin eline teslim ettiler; onlar da bu parayı Rab'bin tapınağında çalışan marangozlara ve yapı ustalarına,

¹³duvarcılara ve taş yontucularına verdiler; ayrıca Rab'bin tapınağının gediklerini onarmak için gereken kereste ve yontma taşları satın almak ve tapınağın onarımı için yapılan diğer bütün harcamaları karşılamak için kullandılar.

¹⁴Ancak Rab'bin tapınağına getirilen bu paradan tapınak için gümüş kapılar, çiviler, taslar, borular, altın veya gümüş kaplar yapılmadı;

¹⁵çünkü bu parayı sadece işçilere veriyorlardı ve onunla Rab'bin tapınağını onarıyorlardı.

¹⁶İşçilere ödeme yapmak üzere kendilerine para teslim edilen adamlardan hesap sormuyorlardı, çünkü onlar dürüstçe çalışıyorlardı.

¹⁷Günah sunusu parası ve suç sunusu parası olarak Rab'bin tapınağına getirilen her şey kâhinlerin oluyordu.

¹⁸O sırada Suriye Kralı Hazael saldırdı, Gat Kenti'yle savaşıp burayı ele geçirdi. Sonra Hazael yönünü Yeruşalim'e çevirdi.

¹⁹Bunun üzerine Yahuda Kralı Yoaş, ataları olan Yahuda kralları Yehoşafat, Yehoram ve Ahazya'nın adadığı bütün kutsal eşyaları, kendi adadığı kutsal eşyaları ve Rab'bin tapınağı ile kral sarayının hazinelerinde bulunan bütün altını alıp Suriye Kralı Hazael'e gönderdi. Hazael de Yeruşalim'den çekildi.

²⁰Yoaş'ın yaptığı diğer işler ve bütün yaptıkları Yahuda Krallarının Tarih Kitabı'nda yazılı değil midir?

²¹Hizmetkarları ona karşı ayaklanıp bir düzen kurdular ve Yoaş'ı Gaala'daki Mallo Evi'nde öldürdiler.

²²Onu vuran hizmetkarları, Iemouath oğlu Iezichar ve Somer oğlu Iezebouth'tu; Yoaş öldü ve Davut Kenti'nde atalarının yanına gömüldü. Yerine oğlu Amasya kral oldu.

¹ΥΙΟΣ ἑπτὰ ἐτῶν ᾿Ιωὰς ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτόν.

²ἐν ἔτει ἑβδόμῳ τῷ ᾿Ιοὺ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Ιωὰς καὶ τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ᾿Αβιὰ ἐκ τῆς Βηρσαβεέ.

³καὶ ἐποίησεν ᾿Ιωὰς τὸ εὐθὲς ἐνώπιον Κυρίου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας, ἃς ἐφώτισεν αὐτὸν ᾿Ιωδαὲ ὁ ἱερεύς·

⁴πλὴν τῶν ὑψηλῶν οὐ μετεστάθησαν, καὶ ἐκεῖ ἔτι ὁ λαὸς ἐθυσίαζε καὶ ἐθυμίων ἐν τοῖς ὑψηλοῖς.

⁵καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ιωὰς πρὸς τοὺς ἱερεῖς· πᾶν τὸ ἀργύριον τῶν ἁγίων τὸ εἰσοδιαζόμενον ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Κυρίου, ἀργύριον συντιμήσεως, ἀνὴρ ἀργύριον λαβὼν συντιμήσεως, πᾶν ἀργύριον, ὃ ἐὰν ἀναβῇ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνδρὸς ἐνεγκεῖν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου,

⁶λαβέτωσαν ἑαυτοῖς οἱ ἱερεῖς ἀνὴρ ἀπὸ τῆς πράσεως αὐτῶν καὶ αὐτοὶ κρατήσουσι τὸ βεδὲκ τοῦ οἴκου εἰς πάντα, οὗ ἐὰν εὑρεθῇ ἐκεῖ βεδέκ.

⁷καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῷ εἰκοστῷ καὶ τρίτῳ ἔτει τῷ βασιλεῖ ᾿Ιωὰς οὐκ ἐκραταίωσαν οἱ ἱερεῖς τὸ βεδὲκ τοῦ οἴκου.

⁸καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ᾿Ιωὰς ὁ βασιλεὺς ᾿Ιωδαὲ τὸν ἱερέα καὶ τοὺς ἱερεῖς καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς· τί ὅτι οὐκ ἐκραταιοῦτε τὸ βεδὲκ τοῦ οἴκου; καὶ νῦν μὴ λάβητε ἀργύριον ἀπὸ τῶν πράσεων ὑμῶν, ὅτι εἰς τὸ βεδὲκ τοῦ οἴκου δώσετε αὐτό.

⁹καὶ συνεφώνησαν οἱ ἱερεῖς τοῦ μὴ λαβεῖν ἀργύριον παρὰ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τοῦ μὴ ἐνισχῦσαι τὸ βεδὲκ τοῦ οἴκου.

¹⁰καὶ ἔλαβεν ᾿Ιωδαὲ ὁ ἱερεὺς κιβωτὸν μίαν καὶ ἔτρησε τρώγλην ἐπὶ τῆς σανίδος αὐτῆς καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν παρὰ ἀμμαζειβὶ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ἀνδρὸς οἴκου Κυρίου, καὶ ἔδωκαν οἱ ἱερεῖς οἱ φυλάσσοντες τὸν σταθμὸν πᾶν τὸ ἀργύριον τὸ εὑρεθὲν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου.

¹¹καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς εἶδον ὅτι πολὺ τὸ ἀργύριον ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ, καὶ ἀνέβη ὁ γραμματεὺς τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ ὁ ἱερεὺς ὁ μέγας καὶ ἔσφιγξαν καὶ ἠρίθμησαν τὸ ἀργύριον τὸ εὑρεθὲν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου.

¹²καὶ ἔδωκαν τὸ ἀργύριον τὸ ἑτοιμασθὲν ἐπὶ χεῖρας ποιούντων τὰ ἔργα τῶν ἐπισκόπων οἴκου Κυρίου, καὶ ἐξέδοσαν τοῖς τέκτοσι τῶν ξύλων καὶ τοῖς οἰκοδόμοις τοῖς ποιοῦσιν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου

¹³καὶ τοῖς τειχισταῖς καὶ τοῖς λατόμοις τῶν λίθων τοῦ κτήσασθαι ξύλα καὶ λίθους λατομητοὺς τοῦ κατασχεῖν τὸ βεδὲκ οἴκου Κυρίου εἰς πάντα, ὅσα ἐξωδιάσθη ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ κραταιῶσαι·

¹⁴πλὴν οὐ ποιηθήσονται οἴκῳ Κυρίου θύραι ἀργυραῖ, ἧλοι, φιάλαι καὶ σάλπιγγες, πᾶν σκεῦος χρυσοῦν καὶ σκεῦος ἀργυροῦν, ἐκ τοῦ ἀργυρίου τοῦ εἰσενεχθέντος ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου,

¹⁵ὅτι τοῖς ποιοῦσι τὰ ἔργα δώσουσιν αὐτό, καὶ ἐκραταίωσαν ἐν αὐτῷ τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου.

¹⁶καὶ οὐκ ἐξελογίζοντο τοὺς ἄνδρας, οἷς ἐδίδουν τὸ ἀργύριον ἐπὶ χεῖρας αὐτῶν δοῦναι τοῖς ποιοῦσι τὰ ἔργα, ὅτι ἐν πίστει αὐτῶν ποιοῦσιν.

¹⁷ἀργύριον περὶ ἁμαρτίας καὶ ἀργύριον περὶ πλημμελείας, ὅ,τι εἰσηνέχθη ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου, τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν ἐγένετο.

¹⁸Τότε ἀνέβη ᾿Αζαὴλ βασιλεὺς Συρίας καὶ ἐπολέμησεν ἐπὶ Γὲθ καὶ προκατελάβετο αὐτήν. καὶ ἔταξεν ᾿Αζαὴλ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀναβῆναι ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

¹⁹καὶ ἔλαβεν ᾿Ιωὰς βασιλεὺς ᾿Ιούδα πάντα τὰ ἅγια, ὅσα ἡγίασεν ᾿Ιωσαφὰτ καὶ ᾿Ιωρὰμ καὶ ᾿Οχοζίας οἱ πατέρες αὐτοῦ καὶ βασιλεῖς ᾿Ιούδα, καὶ τὰ ἅγια αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶν τὸ χρυσίον τὸ εὑρεθὲν ἐν θησαυροῖς οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ ἀπέστειλε τῷ ᾿Αζαὴλ βασιλεῖ Συρίας, καὶ ἀνέβη ἀπὸ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

²⁰καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων ᾿Ιωὰς καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα πάντα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ᾿Ιούδα;

²¹καὶ ἀνέστησαν οἱ δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔδησαν πάντα σύνδεσμον καὶ ἐπάταξαν τὸν ᾿Ιωὰς ἐν οἴκῳ Μαλλὼ τῷ ἐν Γααλὰ

²²καὶ ᾿Ιεζιχὰρ υἱὸς ᾿Ιεμουὰθ καὶ ᾿Ιεζεβοὺθ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ Σωμὴρ οἱ δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ ἐπάταξαν αὐτόν, καὶ ἀπέθανε· καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Αμεσσίας υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹Joas [was] seven years old when he began to reign.

²Joas began to reign in the seventh year of Ju, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name [was] Sabia of Bersabee.

³And Joas did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days that Jodae the priest instructed him.

⁴Only there were not [any] of the high places removed, and the people still sacrificed there, and burned incense on the high places.

⁵And Joas said to the priests, [As for] all the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money of valuation, [as] each man brings the money of valuation, all the money which any man may feel disposed to bring into the house of the Lord,

⁶let the priests take it to themselves, every man from [the proceeds of] his sale: and they shall repair the breaches of the house in all [places] wheresoever a breach shall be found.

⁷And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests [had] not repaired the breaches of the house.

⁸And king Joas called Jodae the priest, and the [other] priests, and said to them, Why have ye not repaired the breaches of the house? now then receive no [more] money from your sales, for ye shall give it to [repair the] breaches of the house.

⁹And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house.

¹⁰And Jodae the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it by the altar in the house of a man [belonging to] the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the door put [therein] all the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

¹¹And it came to pass, when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest went up, and they tied up and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

¹²And they gave the money that had been collected into the hands of them that wrought the works, the overseers of the house of the Lord; and they gave it out to the carpenters and to the builders that wrought in the house of the Lord.

¹³And to the masons, and to the hewers of stone, to purchase timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, for all that was spent on the house of the Lord to repair [it].

¹⁴Only there were not to be made for the house of the Lord silver plates, studs, bowls, or trumpets, any vessel of gold or vessel of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:

¹⁵for they were to give it to the workmen, and they repaired therewith the house of the Lord.

¹⁶Also they took no account of the men into whose hands they gave the money to give to the workmen, for they acted faithfully.

¹⁷Money for a sin-offering, and money for a trespass-offering, whatever happened to be brought into the house of the Lord, went to the priests.

¹⁸Then went up Azael king of Syria, and fought against Geth, and took it: and Azael set his face to go against Jerusalem.

¹⁹And Joas king of Juda took all the holy things which Josaphat, and Joram, Ochozias, his fathers, and kings of Juda [had] consecrated, and what he had himself dedicated, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the Lord’s house and the king’s house, and he sent [them] to Azael king of Syria; and he went up from Jerusalem.

²⁰And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, behold, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

²¹And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy, and smote Joas in the house of Mallo that is in Sela.

²²And Jezirchar the son of Jemuath, and Jezabuth Somer’s son, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amessias his son reigned in his stead.