13. None of the money, however, was used to pay for making silver cups, bowls, trumpets, or tools for tending the lamps, or any other article of silver or of gold.
14. It was all used to pay the workers and to buy the materials used in the repairs.
15. The men in charge of the work were thoroughly honest, so there was no need to require them to account for the funds.
16. The money given for the repayment offerings and for the offerings for sin was not deposited in the box; it belonged to the priests.
17. At that time King Hazael of Syria attacked the city of Gath and conquered it; then he decided to attack Jerusalem.
18. King Joash of Judah took all the offerings that his predecessors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah had dedicated to the Lord, added to them his own offerings and all the gold in the treasuries of the Temple and the palace, and sent them all as a gift to King Hazael, who then led his army away from Jerusalem.