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Chapter 27 |
| 1 |
Jotham was 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. |
| 2 | And he did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father
Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people
did yet corruptly. |
| 3 | He
built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built
much. |
| 4 | Moreover he built
cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and
towers. |
| 5 | He fought also
with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of
Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand
measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of
Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. |
| 6 | So Jotham became mighty, because he
prepared his ways before the LORD his God. |
| 7 | Now 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. |
| 8 | He was five and
twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem. |
| 9 | And Jotham
slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his
son reigned in his stead. |
