16. They did not check on the men to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, for they dealt faithfully.
17. The money from the guilt offering and money from the sin offering was not brought into the House of Adonai—it was for the kohanim.
18. Then King Hazael of Aram marched and attacked Gath and captured it, and next Hazael set his face to march against Jerusalem.
19. But King Jehoash of Judah took all the sacred objects that his fathers Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred objects, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the House of Adonai and in the royal palace, and sent them to King Hazael of Aram, so he withdrew from Jerusalem.
20. Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
21. But his courtiers arose, conspired against him and assassinated Joash at Beth-Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
22. His courtiers Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. Then they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. His son Amaziah became king in his place.