2 Kings · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
2 Kings 12 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Joás comenzó a reinar en el séptimo año de Jehú. Reinó cuarenta años en Jerusalén. Su madre se llamaba Sibia y era de Beerseba.
1 Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Joás hizo lo recto ante los ojos del Señor mientras el sacerdote Joiada lo instruyó.
2 Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3 Sin embargo, no se quitaron los santuarios en los lugares altos. El pueblo siguió ofreciendo sacrificios y quemando incienso allí.
3 However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
4 Joás dijo a los sacerdotes: «Reúnan todo el dinero que se entrega al templo del Señor como ofrenda sagrada: los pagos establecidos y las donaciones voluntarias.
4 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,
5 Que cada sacerdote reciba el dinero de sus conocidos y lo use para reparar las partes dañadas del templo».
5 let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6 Pero en el año veintitrés del reinado de Joás, los sacerdotes aún no habían reparado el templo.
6 But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
7 El rey llamó a Joiada y a los demás sacerdotes y les preguntó: «¿Por qué no han reparado las partes dañadas del templo? De ahora en adelante no reciban ese dinero de sus conocidos. Entréguenlo para las reparaciones».
7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
8 Los sacerdotes aceptaron no recibir más dinero del pueblo ni quedar a cargo de las reparaciones.
8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
9 Entonces Joiada tomó un cofre, abrió un agujero en la tapa y lo puso junto al altar, a la derecha de la entrada al templo del Señor. Los sacerdotes que guardaban la puerta depositaban allí todo el dinero que entraba en el templo.
9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.
10 Cada vez que había mucho dinero en el cofre, el secretario del rey y el sumo sacerdote lo contaban y lo ponían en bolsas.
10 When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.
11 Entregaban el dinero contado a los encargados de supervisar las obras del templo. Estos pagaban a los carpinteros y constructores,
11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on Yahweh’s house,
12 a los albañiles y canteros, y compraban madera y piedra labrada. También pagaban todo lo necesario para reparar el templo.
12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13 Ese dinero no se usaba para hacer copas, utensilios, recipientes, trompetas ni otros objetos de oro o plata para el templo del Señor.
13 But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;
14 Se destinaba a pagar a los trabajadores que reparaban el templo.
14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.
15 A los encargados de administrar el dinero no se les pedían cuentas, porque actuaban con honradez.
15 Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
16 El dinero de las ofrendas por la culpa y por el pecado no se depositaba en el cofre del templo: pertenecía a los sacerdotes.
16 The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.
17 Por entonces Hazael, rey de Siria, atacó y conquistó Gat. Después se propuso atacar Jerusalén.
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 Joás, rey de Judá, tomó los objetos consagrados al Señor por sus antepasados Josafat, Joram y Ocozías, reyes de Judá, junto con los que él mismo había consagrado. También tomó todo el oro de los depósitos del templo y del palacio, y se lo envió a Hazael. Así Hazael se retiró de Jerusalén.
18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
19 Los demás hechos de Joás y todo lo que hizo están escritos en el libro de las crónicas de los reyes de Judá.
19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 Sus servidores conspiraron contra él y lo mataron en la casa de Miló, en el camino que baja a Sila.
20 His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21 Josacar hijo de Simeat y Jozabad hijo de Somer fueron los servidores que lo mataron. Lo sepultaron con sus antepasados en la Ciudad de David. Su hijo Amasías ocupó su lugar como rey.
21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Amaziah
Joash's son, who became king at twenty-five and reigned twenty-nine years, executed his father's murderers, struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt, was routed by…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:21; 2 Kings 14:1; 2 Kings 14:7
Jehozabad
A servant of Joash, called 'son of Shomer', who struck Joash down at Beth-millo.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:21; 2 Chronicles 24:26
Joash
Son of Ahaziah, hidden for six years in the house of the LORD, crowned at seven by Jehoiada, who reigned forty years, repaired the temple, bought off Hazael with the temple…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 11:2; 2 Kings 11:19; 2 Kings 12:1
Jozabad
A servant of Joash, called 'son of Shimeath', who struck Joash down at Beth-millo.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:21; 2 Chronicles 24:26
Zibiah
A woman of Beersheba named as the mother of King Joash of Judah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chronicles 24:1
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Kings 11:21; 1 Chronicles 3:11; 2 Kings 9:27; 2 Kings 11:1–4; 2 Chronicles 24:1–14
- 2 2 Chronicles 24:17–22; 2 Kings 14:3; 2 Chronicles 25:2; 2 Chronicles 26:4; 2 Chronicles 24:2
- 3 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:35; 1 Kings 15:14; 2 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 22:43
- 4 2 Kings 22:4; Exodus 30:12–16; Exodus 35:5; Exodus 35:29; 1 Chronicles 29:3–9
- 5 Isaiah 58:12; 1 Kings 11:27; 2 Chronicles 24:5; 2 Kings 22:5–6; 2 Kings 12:12
- 6 Malachi 1:10; 1 Samuel 2:29–30; Philippians 2:21; Isaiah 56:10–12; 2 Chronicles 29:34
- 7 2 Kings 11:4; 2 Chronicles 24:5–14; 2 Kings 12:2; 2 Chronicles 24:16; 2 Chronicles 23:1
- 9 Mark 12:41; 1 Chronicles 15:24; Psalm 84:10; Jeremiah 35:4; Luke 21:1
- 10 2 Samuel 8:17; 2 Kings 22:12; 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Samuel 20:25; 2 Kings 5:23
- 11 2 Chronicles 34:9–11; 2 Kings 22:5–6; 2 Chronicles 24:11–12
- 12 2 Kings 22:5–6; 1 Kings 5:17–18; Luke 21:5; Ezra 5:8; Ezra 3:7
- 13 2 Chronicles 24:14; 1 Kings 7:48–50; Numbers 7:13–14; Ezra 1:9–11; Numbers 10:2
- 15 2 Kings 22:7; Nehemiah 7:2; Luke 16:1; 2 Chronicles 34:12; 1 Corinthians 4:2–3
- 16 Leviticus 7:7; Leviticus 5:15–18; Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 4:29; Hosea 4:8
- 17 2 Chronicles 24:23–24; 1 Kings 2:39–40; Jeremiah 42:15; Luke 9:53; 2 Kings 8:12–15
- 18 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Kings 18:15–16; 2 Kings 12:4; 2 Chronicles 16:2; 2 Kings 16:8
- 19 1 Kings 14:29; 1 Kings 14:19; 2 Kings 8:23; 1 Kings 11:41
- 20 2 Chronicles 24:24–27; 2 Kings 14:5; 2 Samuel 5:9; Judges 9:6; 1 Kings 11:27
- 21 2 Chronicles 24:26–27; 2 Kings 14:1
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