2 Chronicles 27
The Reign of
Jotham |
2 Kgs. 15.32-38 |
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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 Jeru'shah, the daughter
of Zadok.
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And he did that which was right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all that
his father Uzzi'ah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of
the LORD. And the people did yet
corruptly.
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He built the high gate of the house of
the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built
much.
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Moreover he built cities in the mountains
of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
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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 unto him, both the second year, and the
third.
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So Jotham became mighty, because he
prepared his ways before the LORD his
God.
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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.
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He was five and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
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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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