11. When they noticed that there was a large amount of silver in the chest, the royal scribe would come up with the high priest, and they would gather up and weigh all the silver that was in the house of the Lord.
12. The amount thus realized they turned over to the workers assigned to the house of the Lord. They in turn would pay it to the carpenters and builders working in the house of the Lord,
13. and to the masons and stone cutters, and for the purchase of the wood and hewn stone used in repairing the breaches, and for any other expenses that were necessary to repair the house of the Lord.
14. None of the valuables brought to the house of the Lord were used there to make silver basins, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any gold or silver article.
15. Instead, they were given to the workers, and with them they repaired the house of the Lord.
16. Moreover, no reckoning was asked of those who were provided with the funds to give to the workers, because they held positions of trust.
17. The funds from reparation offerings and from purification offerings, however, were not brought to the house of the Lord; they belonged to the priests.
18. Then Hazael, king of Aram, came up and attacked Gath. When he had taken it, Hazael resolved to go on to attack Jerusalem.
19. Joash, king of Judah, took all the sacred offerings presented by his forebears, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, as well as his own, and all the gold there was in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and sent them to King Hazael of Aram, who then turned away from Jerusalem.
20. The rest of the acts of Joash, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
21. Certain of his officials entered into a conspiracy and struck Joash down at Beth-millo.
22. Jozacar, son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of Shomer, were the officials who struck and killed him. He was buried with his ancestors in the City of David, and his son Amaziah succeeded him as king.