2 Chronicles 27
- 1Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
- 2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.
- 3He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.
- 4In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.
- 5He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the(possibly incomplete in the source)
- 6So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.
- 7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
- 8He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.
- 9And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.
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