¹⁸ So King Joash of Judah took all the items consecrated by himself and by his ancestors – Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah – as well as all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to King Hazael of Aram.^(A) Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

⁸ Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace and sent them to the king of Assyria as a bribe.^(A)

² So Asa brought out the silver and gold from the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace and sent it to Aram’s King Ben-hadad, who lived in Damascus, saying,