2. Chronik 27

1. ¹Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
2. ²And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
3. ³He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
4. ⁴Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forest he built castles and towers.
5. ⁵He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of A(in der Quelle möglicherweise unvollständig)
6. ⁶So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
7. ⁷Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
8. ⁸He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9. ⁹And 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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