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.

1 耶户在位第七年， 约阿施登基， 在耶路撒冷作王四十年。他母亲名叫西比亚， 是从别是巴来的。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为12:2）

2 在耶何耶大祭司教导他的日子， 他就行耶和华看为正的事。

3 只是邱坛没有废去， 人民仍在邱坛献祭焚香。

4 约阿施对众祭司说： "所有分别为圣， 奉到耶和华殿里的银子， 或是各被数点之人的赎价， 或是各种的赎价， 或是各人随着心意， 奉到耶和华殿里的银子，

5 各祭司可向自己熟悉的人收取。他们要修理殿内毁坏的地方， 就是一切发现有毁坏的地方。"

6 可是到了约阿施王在位二十三年的时候， 祭司还未修好圣殿毁坏的地方。

7 于是约阿施王召了耶何耶大祭司和众祭司来， 说： "你们为什么不修理圣殿毁坏的地方呢？现在不要向你们熟识的人收取银子， 却要把所收的交出来， 修理圣殿毁坏的地方。"

8 众祭司答应不再从人民收取银子， 也不修理圣殿毁坏的地方。

9 耶何耶大祭司搬来了一个箱子， 在它的顶上钻了一个孔， 把它放在祭坛旁边， 在圣殿入口的右边。守门的祭司把奉到耶和华殿所有的银子都投进箱里。

10 他们看见箱内的银子多起来的时候， 就叫王的书记和大祭司上来， 他们就数点在耶和华殿里所得的银子， 装在袋中。

11 他们把所称的银子交在耶和华殿中管理工匠的监工手里， 然后他们支付给在耶和华殿作工的木匠和建筑工人，

12 以及泥匠和石匠； 又用来购买木材和凿好的石头， 来修理耶和华殿里毁坏的地方， 以及支付一切修理耶和华殿的开支。

13 但耶和华殿里的银杯、烛剪、碗、号或任何金银器皿， 都没有用奉到耶和华殿里的银子来做。

14 他们只把银子交给工匠， 用来修理耶和华殿里毁坏的地方。

15 他们没有要求经手把银子转付工匠的人交代帐目， 因为他们办事诚实。

16 但是赎愆祭和赎罪祭的银子， 他们没有奉入耶和华的殿， 这些银子是属于祭司的。

17 那时亚兰王哈薛上来， 攻打迦特， 把它夺取了。他又决心上来攻打耶路撒冷。

18 犹大王约阿施于是拿出所有的圣物， 就是他的祖先犹大王约沙法、约兰和亚哈谢所献的圣物， 以及他自己所献的圣物， 还有耶和华殿和王宫宝库里所有的金子， 送给亚兰王哈薛， 哈薛就离开耶路撒冷去了。

19 约阿施其余的事迹和他所行的一切， 不是都写在犹大列王的年代志上吗？

20 约阿施的臣仆起来背叛， 他们在米罗宫内， 他下到悉拉的时候， 击杀了他。

21 他的臣仆示米押的儿子约撒甲和朔默的儿子约萨拔击杀他， 他就死了。人把他埋葬在大卫城， 和他的祖先在一起。他的儿子亚玛谢接续他作王。