2 Chronicles - Chapter 27

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¹ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he came to the throne and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

² He did what Yahweh regards as right, just as his father Uzziah had done. Only he did not enter Yahweh's sanctuary. But the people continued to do wrong.

³ It was he who built the Upper Gate of the Temple of Yahweh and carried out considerable work on the wall of the Ophel.

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⁴ He also built towns in the highlands of Judah and built forts and towers in the wooded areas.

⁵ He also went to war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them; and the Ammonites had to give him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kor of wheat and ten thousand of barley that year. And the Ammonites paid him the same amount, the second and third years afterwords.

⁶ Jotham became powerful because he kept an unswerving course before Yahweh his God.

⁷ The rest of the history of Jotham, all his wars and his policy, are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

⁸ He was twenty-five years old when he came to the throne and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

⁹ Then Jotham fell asleep with his ancestors, and was buried in the City of David; his son Ahaz succeeded him.

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