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.
19. The rest of the events of Joash’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.
20. Joash’s servants conspired against him and killed him at Beth-millo on the road that goes down to Silla.
21. His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. Then they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.