14. Instead, it was given directly to those who did the repair work; they used it to repair the Lord’s temple.
15. There was no need to check on those who received the money and paid the workers, because they acted honestly.
16. Now as for the money for compensation and purification offerings, it wasn’t brought to the Lord’s temple. It belonged to the priests.
17. About this same time, Aram’s King Hazael came up, attacked Gath, and captured it. Next Hazael decided to march against Jerusalem.
18. Judah’s King Jehoash took all the holy objects that had been dedicated by his ancestors—Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah—along with the holy objects he himself had dedicated, as well as all the gold in the treasure rooms of the Lord’s temple and the palace, and he sent them to Aram’s King Hazael. Hazael then pulled back from Jerusalem.
19. The rest of Jehoash’s deeds and all that he accomplished, aren’t they written in the official records of Judah’s kings?
20. Jehoash’s officials plotted a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo on the road that goes down to Silla.
21. It was Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his officials, who struck him so that he died. He was buried with his ancestors in David’s City. His son Amaziah succeeded him as king.