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.
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.
3 He
built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built
much.
4 Moreover
he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles
and towers.
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.
6 So
Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
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.
8 He
was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem.
9 And
Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and
Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
