2 Chronicles 27

¹ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha, daughter of Zadok.

² He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as everything his father Uzziah had done—except that he did not enter the temple of the LORD. Yet the people continued in their corruption.

³ He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.

⁴ He built towns in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.

⁵ He fought against the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them. That year the Ammonites gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and third years as well.

⁶ Jotham grew strong because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

⁷ The rest of Jotham’s acts, all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

⁸ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

⁹ Jotham rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. His son Ahaz reigned in his place.

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