15. And they did not ration the money to the men who received it in order to distribute it to the artisans. Instead, they bestowed it with faith.
16. Yet truly, the money for offenses and the money for sins, they did not bring into the temple of the Lord, since it was for the priests.
17. Then Hazael, the king of Syria, ascended and fought against Gath, and he captured it. And he directed his face, so that he might ascend against Jerusalem.
18. For this reason, Jehoash, the king of Judah, took all the sanctified things, which Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had consecrated and which he himself had offered, and all the silver that could be found in the treasuries of the temple of the Lord and in the palace of the king, and he sent it to Hazael, the king of Syria. And so he withdrew from Jerusalem.