16 aThe money from the trespass offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord. bIt belonged to the priests.
Hazael Threatens Jerusalem
17 aHazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; then bHazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 And Jehoash king of Judah atook all the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and in the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem.
Death of Joash
19 Now the rest of the acts of1 Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 And ahis servants arose and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo, which goes down to Silla.
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