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Foi sete anos depois de Jeú se ter tornado rei de Israel que Joás se tornou rei de Judá. Reinou em Jerusalém quarenta anos. (A sua mãe era Zibia de Berseba.) Toda a sua vida Joás fez o que era recto, porque Jeoiada o sacerdote o instruía. 
Mas mesmo assim ainda não destruiu os nichos aos ídolos que se levantavam sobre as colinas - o povo continuou ainda a sacrificar e queimar incenso aí. 
Um dia o rei Joás disse a Jeoiada: O edifício do templo precisa de grandes reparações. Por isso, quando alguém trouxer uma dádiva ao Senhor, seja ela uma contribuição regular ou um dom especial, utilizem-na para pagar as obras de restauração que forem necessárias. 
No entanto, ainda no vigésimo terceiro ano do seu reinado, o templo se mantinha no mesmo estado. Por isso Joás mandou chamar Jeoiada e os outros sacerdotes, perguntando-lhes: Por que razão ainda nada fizeram para restaurar o templo? Não utilizem portanto mais dinheiro nenhum para cobrir as vossas necessidades pessoais. Daqui em diante tudo o que for recebido deverá ser empregado com o fim de pôr o templo em condições. 
Os sacerdotes concordaram em levantar um fundo especial para reparação do edifício, e em não receberem mais donativos que revertessem para sí próprios. Jeoiada, o sacerdote, preparou uma grande arca com uma abertura na tampa e pô-la ao lado do altar à direita de quem entrava no templo. Os sacerdotes com a função de porteiros punham aí dentro todas as contribuições do povo. Sempre que a arca ficava cheia, o tesoureiro real e o sacerdote contavam o dinheiro e punham-no em sacos; davam-no depois ao mestre-de-obras para pagar aos carpinteiros, aos pedreiros, aos marceneiros, aos canteiros, e também para comprar mais material que era necessário à obra da casa do Senhor. Nenhum desse dinheiro era usado para adquirir fosse o que fosse em matéria de instrumentos ou recipientes em prata ou ouro, fossem garfos, bacias, taças; todo ela ia exclusivamente para os trabalhos de restauração. Também não eram requeridas contas exactas aos encarregados da obra, porque actuavam com fidelidade. Unicamente o dinheiro proveniente das contribuições por ofertas de culpa e sacrifícios pelo pecado é que era dado aos sacerdotes para o seu uso pessoal; essa não era posto na arca das ofertas. 
Por essa altura o rei Hazael da Síria entrou em guerra contra Gate e conquistou-a. Depois virou-se contra Jerusalém a atacar. O rei Joás pegou em todos os objectos sagrados que os seus antepassados - Jeosafá, Jeorão e Acazias, reis de Judá - tinham consagrado, juntamente com o que ele próprio dera, assim como o ouro que se achou nos tesouros do templo e do palácio, e enviou tudo a Hazael. Desta forma este último desistiu do ataque. 
O resto da história do reinado de Joás está narrado nas Crónicas dos Reis de Judá. Os seus conselheiros conspiraram contra ele e assassinaram no na sua residência real em Milo, no caminho para Sila. Os assassinos foram Jozacar, filho de Simeate e Jeozabade, filho de Somer - ambos eram seus auxiliares de confiança. Foi sepultado no cemitério real, em Jerusalém. Seu filho Amazias reinou em seu lugar. 

In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 
And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh, 
let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they will repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach will be found. 
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, Why aren't you{+} repairing the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no [more] money from your{+} acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 
And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. 
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 comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh. 
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 in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh. 
And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought on the house of Yahweh, 
and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 
But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh; 
for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the house of Yahweh with it. 
Moreover they didn't reckon with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. 
The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'. 
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 
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 Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem. 
Now 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? 
And his slaves arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla. 
For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his slaves, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. 

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Foi sete anos depois de Jeú se ter tornado rei de Israel que Joás se tornou rei de Judá. Reinou em Jerusalém quarenta anos. (A sua mãe era Zibia de Berseba.) Toda a sua vida Joás fez o que era recto, porque Jeoiada o sacerdote o instruía. 
Mas mesmo assim ainda não destruiu os nichos aos ídolos que se levantavam sobre as colinas - o povo continuou ainda a sacrificar e queimar incenso aí. 
Um dia o rei Joás disse a Jeoiada: O edifício do templo precisa de grandes reparações. Por isso, quando alguém trouxer uma dádiva ao Senhor, seja ela uma contribuição regular ou um dom especial, utilizem-na para pagar as obras de restauração que forem necessárias. 
No entanto, ainda no vigésimo terceiro ano do seu reinado, o templo se mantinha no mesmo estado. Por isso Joás mandou chamar Jeoiada e os outros sacerdotes, perguntando-lhes: Por que razão ainda nada fizeram para restaurar o templo? Não utilizem portanto mais dinheiro nenhum para cobrir as vossas necessidades pessoais. Daqui em diante tudo o que for recebido deverá ser empregado com o fim de pôr o templo em condições. 
Os sacerdotes concordaram em levantar um fundo especial para reparação do edifício, e em não receberem mais donativos que revertessem para sí próprios. Jeoiada, o sacerdote, preparou uma grande arca com uma abertura na tampa e pô-la ao lado do altar à direita de quem entrava no templo. Os sacerdotes com a função de porteiros punham aí dentro todas as contribuições do povo. Sempre que a arca ficava cheia, o tesoureiro real e o sacerdote contavam o dinheiro e punham-no em sacos; davam-no depois ao mestre-de-obras para pagar aos carpinteiros, aos pedreiros, aos marceneiros, aos canteiros, e também para comprar mais material que era necessário à obra da casa do Senhor. Nenhum desse dinheiro era usado para adquirir fosse o que fosse em matéria de instrumentos ou recipientes em prata ou ouro, fossem garfos, bacias, taças; todo ela ia exclusivamente para os trabalhos de restauração. Também não eram requeridas contas exactas aos encarregados da obra, porque actuavam com fidelidade. Unicamente o dinheiro proveniente das contribuições por ofertas de culpa e sacrifícios pelo pecado é que era dado aos sacerdotes para o seu uso pessoal; essa não era posto na arca das ofertas. 
Por essa altura o rei Hazael da Síria entrou em guerra contra Gate e conquistou-a. Depois virou-se contra Jerusalém a atacar. O rei Joás pegou em todos os objectos sagrados que os seus antepassados - Jeosafá, Jeorão e Acazias, reis de Judá - tinham consagrado, juntamente com o que ele próprio dera, assim como o ouro que se achou nos tesouros do templo e do palácio, e enviou tudo a Hazael. Desta forma este último desistiu do ataque. 
O resto da história do reinado de Joás está narrado nas Crónicas dos Reis de Judá. Os seus conselheiros conspiraram contra ele e assassinaram no na sua residência real em Milo, no caminho para Sila. Os assassinos foram Jozacar, filho de Simeate e Jeozabade, filho de Somer - ambos eram seus auxiliares de confiança. Foi sepultado no cemitério real, em Jerusalém. Seu filho Amazias reinou em seu lugar. 

In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 
And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh, 
let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they will repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach will be found. 
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, Why aren't you{+} repairing the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no [more] money from your{+} acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 
And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. 
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 comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh. 
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 in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh. 
And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought on the house of Yahweh, 
and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 
But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh; 
for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the house of Yahweh with it. 
Moreover they didn't reckon with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. 
The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'. 
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 
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 Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem. 
Now 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? 
And his slaves arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla. 
For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his slaves, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. 

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