12. and restoring the surfaces, and to those who were cutting stones, and buying timber and stones to be cut, so that the repairs to the house of the Lord might be finished: for all that was needed toward the expenses in order to strengthen the house.
13. Yet truly, from the same money, they did not make for the temple of the Lord water pitchers, or small hooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver, from the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord.
14. For it was given to those who were doing the work, so that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.
15. And they did not ration the money to the men who received it in order to distribute it to the artisans. Instead, they bestowed it with faith.
16. Yet truly, the money for offenses and the money for sins, they did not bring into the temple of the Lord, since it was for the priests.
17. Then Hazael, the king of Syria, ascended and fought against Gath, and he captured it. And he directed his face, so that he might ascend against Jerusalem.