10. When the box was full of money, the king's secretary and the chief priest would count the money and put it in bags.
11. Then they would give it to the men supervising the repairs to the temple. Some of the money was used to pay the builders, the woodworkers,
12. the stonecutters, and the men who built the walls. And some was used to buy wood and stone and to pay any other costs for repairing the temple.
13. While the repairs were being made, the money that was given to the temple was not used to make silver bowls, lamp snuffers, small sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or anything gold or silver for the temple.
14. It went only to pay for repairs.
15. The men in charge were honest, so no one had to keep track of the money.
16. The fines that had to be paid along with the sacrifices to make things right and the sacrifices for sin did not go to the temple. This money belonged only to the priests.
17. About the same time, King Hazael of Syria attacked the town of Gath and captured it. Next, he decided to attack Jerusalem.
18. So Joash collected everything he and his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah had dedicated to the Lord, as well as the gold in the storage rooms in the temple and palace. He sent it all to Hazael as a gift, and when Hazael received it, he ordered his troops to leave Jerusalem.
19. Everything else Joash did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah.