Liber II Paralipomenon, 24

1. septem annorum erat Joas cum regnare cœpisset et quadraginta annis regnavit in Hierusalem nomen matris ejus Sebia de Bersabee

1. Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem : the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.

2. fecitque quod bonum est coram Domino cunctis diebus Jojadæ sacerdotis

2. And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.

3. accepit autem ei Jojadæ uxores duas e quibus genuit filios et filias

3. And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.

4. post quæ placuit Joas ut instauraret domum Domini

4. After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.

5. congregavitque sacerdotes et Levitas et dixit eis egredimini ad civitates Juda et colligite de universo Israël pecuniam ad sarta tecta templi Dei vestri per singulos annos festinatoque hoc facite porro Levitæ egere neglegentius

5. And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but the Levites were negligent.

6. vocavitque rex Jojadæ principem et dixit ei quare non tibi fuit curæ ut cogeres Levitas inferre de Juda et de Hierusalem pecuniam quæ constituta est a Mose servo Domini ut inferret eam omnis multitudo Israël in tabernaculum testimonii

6. And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord for all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the testimony?

7. Otholia enim impiissima et filii ejus destruxerunt domum Domini et de universis quæ sanctificata fuerant templo Domini ornaverunt fanum Baalim

7. For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.

8. præcepit ergo rex et fecerunt arcam posueruntque eam juxta portam domus Domini forinsecus

8. And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.

9. et prædicatum est in Juda et Hierusalem ut deferrent singuli pretium Domino quod constituit Moses servus Dei super omnem Israël in deserto

9. And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel, in the desert.

10. lætatique sunt cuncti principes et omnis populus et ingressi contulerunt in arcam Domini atque miserunt ita ut impleretur

10. And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going In they contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it was filled.

11. cumque tempus esset ut deferrent arcam coram rege per manus Levitarum videbant enim multam pecuniam ingrediebatur scriba regis et quem primus sacerdos constituerat effundebantque pecuniam quæ erat in arca porro arcam reportabant ad locum suum sicque faciebant per singulos dies et congregata est infinita pecunia

11. And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the hands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king's scribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they poured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the chest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was gathered an immense sum of money.

12. quam dederunt rex et Jojada his qui præerant operibus domus Domini at illi conducebant ex ea cæsores lapidum et artifices operum singulorum ut instaurarent domum Domini fabros quoque ferri et æris ut quod cadere cœperat fulciretur

12. And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works of the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and artificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and such as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.

13. egeruntque hii qui operabantur industrie et obducebatur parietum cicatrix per manus eorum ac suscitaverunt domum Domini in statum pristinum et firme eam stare fecerunt

13. And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was closed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its former state, and made it stand firm.

14. cumque conplessent omnia opera detulerunt coram rege et Jojadæ reliquam partem pecuniæ de qua facta sunt vasa templi in ministerium et ad holocausta fialæ quoque et cetera vasa aurea et argentea et offerebantur holocausta in domo Domini jugiter cunctis diebus Jojadæ

14. And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels for the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and other vessels of gold and silver : and holocausts were offered in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.

15. senuit autem Jojadæ plenus dierum et mortuus est cum centum triginta esset annorum

15. But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a hundred and thirty years old.

16. sepelieruntque eum in civitate David cum regibus eo quod fecisset bonum cum Israël et cum domo ejus

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

17. postquam autem obiit Jojada ingressi sunt principes Juda et adoraverunt regem qui delinitus obsequiis eorum adquievit eis

17. And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them.

18. et dereliquerunt templum Domini Dei patrum suorum servieruntque lucis et sculptilibus et facta est ira contra Judam et Hierusalem propter hoc peccatum

18. And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin.

19. mittebatque eis prophetas ut reverterentur ad Dominum quos protestantes illi audire nolebant

19. And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.

20. spiritus itaque Dei induit Zacchariam filium Jojadæ sacerdotem et stetit in conspectu populi et dixit eis hæc dicit Dominus quare transgredimini præceptum Domini quod vobis non proderit et dereliquistis Dominum ut derelinqueret vos

20. The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you?

21. qui congregati adversus eum miserunt lapides juxta regis imperium in atrio domus Domini

21. And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.

22. et non est recordatus Joas rex misericordiæ quam fecerat Jojadæ pater illius secum sed interfecit filium ejus qui cum moreretur ait videat Dominus et requirat

22. And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.

23. cumque evolutus esset annus ascendit contra eum exercitus Syriæ venitque in Judam et Hierusalem et interfecit cunctos principes populi atque universam prædam miserunt regi Damascum

23. And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, end killed all the princes of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.

24. et certe cum permodicus venisset numerus Syrorum tradidit Dominus manibus eorum infinitam multitudinem eo quod reliquissent Dominum Deum patrum suorum in Joas quoque ignominiosa exercuere judicia

24. And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments.

25. et abeuntes dimiserunt eum in languoribus magnis surrexerunt autem contra eum servi sui in ultionem sanguinis filii Jojadæ sacerdotis et occiderunt eum in lectulo suo et mortuus est sepelieruntque eum in civitate David sed non in sepulchris regum

25. And departing they left him in diseases: and his servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

26. insidiati vero sunt ei Zabath filius Semath Ammanitidis et Jozabath filius Semarith Moabitidis

26. Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.

27. porro filii ejus ac summa pecuniæ quæ adunata fuerat sub eo et instauratio domus Dei scripta sunt diligentius in libro regum regnavitque Amasias filius ejus pro eo

27. And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God; they are written more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.