10. Each time the priests saw that the box was full of money, the king’s royal secretary and the high priest came. They counted the money that had been brought to the Temple of the Lord, and they put it into bags.
11. Next they weighed the money and gave it to the people in charge of the work on the Temple. With it they paid the carpenters and the builders who worked on the Temple of the Lord,
12. as well as the bricklayers and stonecutters. They also used the money to buy timber and cut stone to repair the damage of the Temple of the Lord. It paid for everything.
13. The money brought into the Temple of the Lord was not used to make silver cups, wick trimmers, bowls, trumpets, or gold or silver vessels.
14. They paid the money to the workers, who used it to repair the Temple of the Lord.
15. They did not demand to know how the money was spent, because the workers were honest.
16. The money from the penalty offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the Temple of the Lord, because it belonged to the priests.
17. About this time Hazael king of Aram attacked Gath and captured it. Then he went to attack Jerusalem.
18. Joash king of Judah took all the holy things given by his ancestors, the kings of Judah—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah. He also took his own holy things as well as the gold that was found in the treasuries of the Temple of the Lord and the gold from the palace. Joash sent all this treasure to Hazael king of Aram, who turned away from Jerusalem.
19. Everything else Joash did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah.
20. His officers made plans against him and killed him at Beth Millo on the road down to Silla.
21. The officers who killed him were Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. Joash was buried with his ancestors in Jerusalem, and Amaziah, his son, became king in his place.