11. Then they would give the money that had been weighed to the men who had been appointed to work on the Lord’s temple. They used it to pay the carpenters, builders,
12. masons, and stonecutters. They also used it to buy wood and cut stones to make repairs on the Lord’s temple and to buy anything else that they needed for the temple repairs.
13. But no silver bowls, snuffers, dishes, trumpets, or any other gold and silver utensils were made for the Lord’s temple with the money that was brought.
14. Instead, the money was given to the workmen, and they used it to repair the temple.
15. They didn’t require the men who were entrusted with the money for the workers to give an account, because they were honest people.
16. The money from the guilt offerings and the offerings for sin was not brought into the Lord’s temple. It belonged to the priests.
17. At this time King Hazael of Aram fought against Gath and conquered it. He was also determined to attack Jerusalem.
18. So King Joash of Judah took all the gifts his ancestors Kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah of Judah, had dedicated to the Lord, the things he had dedicated to the Lord, and all the gold that could be found in the storerooms of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent these things to King Hazael of Aram, who called off the attack on Jerusalem.
19. Isn’t everything else about Joash—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah?