10. As soon as they saw that a large amount of money was in the box, the royal scribe and the high priest would come, count the money that was in the temple, and put it in a bag.
11. They would then hand over the money that had been counted to those who supervised the work on the temple. These supervisors then paid money to those who worked on the Lord’s temple: carpenters, builders,
12. masons, and stonecutters. The money was used to purchase wood and quarried stone to repair the Lord’s temple and for every other cost involved in repairing it.
13. But the money that was brought to the Lord’s temple was not used to make silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any gold or silver object for the Lord’s temple.
14. Instead, it was given directly to those who did the repair work; they used it to repair the Lord’s temple.
15. There was no need to check on those who received the money and paid the workers, because they acted honestly.
16. Now as for the money for compensation and purification offerings, it wasn’t brought to the Lord’s temple. It belonged to the priests.
17. About this same time, Aram’s King Hazael came up, attacked Gath, and captured it. Next Hazael decided to march against Jerusalem.
18. Judah’s King Jehoash took all the holy objects that had been dedicated by his ancestors—Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah—along with the holy objects he himself had dedicated, as well as all the gold in the treasure rooms of the Lord’s temple and the palace, and he sent them to Aram’s King Hazael. Hazael then pulled back from Jerusalem.
19. The rest of Jehoash’s deeds and all that he accomplished, aren’t they written in the official records of Judah’s kings?