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. |
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2: And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit
he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people
did yet corruptly. |
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3:
He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and
on the wall of Ophel he built much. |
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4: Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah,
and in the forests he built castles and towers. |
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5: He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and
prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him
the same year an 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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6: So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways
before the LORD his God. |
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7: 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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8: He was five and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. |
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9: And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead. |