16. The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the temple of the Lord; it belonged to the priests.
17. About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.
18. But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors – Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah – and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the Lord and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.