2 Chronicles 27

1Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

2He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done—except that he did not enter the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly.

3He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of the Ophel he built much.

4He built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.

5He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them, and the Ammonites gave him that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. This the Ammonites paid to him also in the second year and in the third.

6So Jotham became strong, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

7The 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.

8He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Ahaz his son reigned in his place.