14. None of the valuables brought to the house of the Lord were used there to make silver basins, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any gold or silver article.
15. Instead, they were given to the workers, and with them they repaired the house of the Lord.
16. Moreover, no reckoning was asked of those who were provided with the funds to give to the workers, because they held positions of trust.
17. The funds from reparation offerings and from purification offerings, however, were not brought to the house of the Lord; they belonged to the priests.
18. Then Hazael, king of Aram, came up and attacked Gath. When he had taken it, Hazael resolved to go on to attack Jerusalem.