2 Kings 12:14-20

¹⁴It was used to pay the workers doing the repairs to the Lord's Temple.

¹⁵No accounts were demanded from the men who received the money to pay the workers because they did everything honestly.

¹⁶The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not collected for the Lord's Temple because it belonged to the priests.

¹⁷Around this time Hazael, king of Aram, went and attacked Gath, and captured it. Then he marched to attack Jerusalem.

¹⁸So King Joash of Judah took all the holy objects dedicated by his forefathers Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah, along with all the items he had dedicated himself, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord's Temple and the royal palace, and he sent everything to Hazael, king of Aram. So Hazael retreated from Jerusalem.

¹⁹The rest of what happened in Joash's reign and all that he did are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

²⁰His officials plotted against him and murdered him at Beth Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.