2 Chronicles: Chapter 27
1. Jotham was twenty-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. He did that which was right in the eyes of The
Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter
into the temple of The Lord. The people did yet corruptly.
3. He built the upper gate of the house of The Lord,
and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
4. Moreover he built cities in the hill country of
Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5. He fought also with the king of the children of
Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same
year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten
thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the
second year also, and in the third.
6. So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his
ways before The Lord his God.
7. Now 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. He was five and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9. Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.