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16 Soothly they brought not into the temple of the Lord the money offered for trespass, and the money for sins, for it was the priests’.

17 Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and fought against Gath; and he took it, and (ad)dressed his face (and directed his face), (so) that he should ascend into Jerusalem.

18 Wherefore Joash, king of Judah, took all the hallowed things, that Jehoshaphat had hallowed, and Jehoram[a], and Ahaziah, the fathers of him, kings of Judah, and which things he had offered, and all the silver, that might be found in the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in the palace of the king. And he sent (these) to Hazael, king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem. (And so Joash, the king of Judah, took all the dedicated things, that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his forefathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and which things he had offered, and all the silver that was found in the treasuries of the Temple of the Lord, and in the king’s palace. And he sent these to Hazael, the king of Syria; and then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 12:18 Also known as Joram.