2 Kings 12:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ The money from the restitution offering and the sin offering was not brought to the Lord’s temple since it belonged to the priests.^(A)

Aramean Invasion of Judah

¹⁷ At that time Hazael^(B) king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he planned to attack Jerusalem.^{(C) 18} So King Joash of Judah took all the consecrated items that his ancestors—Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah—had consecrated, along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram.^(D) Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.