10. Whenever they saw there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest would go to the Lord’s temple and count the money found there and tie it up in bags.
11. Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those doing the work — those who oversaw the Lord’s temple. They in turn would pay it out to those working on the Lord’s temple — the carpenters, the builders,
12. the masons, and the stonecutters — and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and for all spending for temple repairs.
13. However, no silver bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver were made for the Lord’s temple from the money brought into the temple.
14. Instead, it was given to those doing the work, and they repaired the Lord’s temple with it.
15. No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity.
16. The money from the restitution offering and the sin offering was not brought to the Lord’s temple since it belonged to the priests.
17. At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he planned to attack Jerusalem.
18. So King Joash of Judah took all the consecrated items that his ancestors — Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah — had consecrated, along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.