12. and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13. But there were not made for the Lord’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, shofars, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the Lord’s house;
14. for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the Lord’s house with it.
15. Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
16. The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the Lord’s house. It was the priests’.
17. Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18. Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the Lord’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
19. Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20. His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21. For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.