2 Chronicles 27

Jotham ^awas twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. ²And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit ^bhe entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly. ³He built the ^chigh gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of ^dOphel he built much. ⁴Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built ^ecastles and towers. ⁵He fought also with the king of the ^fAmmonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand ^gmeasures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. ⁶So Jotham became mighty, ^hbecause he prepared his ways before the Lord his God. ⁷ⁱNow the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ^8kHe was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. ^9lAnd Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

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