¹⁵ He brought into the temple of the Lord the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.^(A)

²⁶ He carried off the treasures of the temple^(A) of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields^(B) Solomon had made.

¹⁸ But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the Lord and of the royal palace, and he sent^(A) them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew^(B) from Jerusalem.

²³ And God raised up against Solomon another adversary,^(A) Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer^(B) king of Zobah. ²⁴ When David destroyed Zobah’s army, Rezon gathered a band of men around him and became their leader; they went to Damascus,^(C) where they settled and took control.