2 Chronicles 27

¹Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerushah^a daughter of Zadok.

²And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah^a had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.

³Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel.

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

⁵Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver,^a ten thousand cors of wheat,^b and ten thousand cors of barley.^c They paid him the same in the second and third years.

⁶So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

⁷As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

⁸He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years.

⁹And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.