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.
27:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Uzziah did: yet, he entered
not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet
corruptly.
27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the
wall of Ophel he built much.
27:4 Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in
the forests he built castles and towers.
27:5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, 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 Ammon pay to him, both the second year, and the
third.
27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways
before the LORD his God.
27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and
his ways, see, they [are] written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah.
27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
27:9 And 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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