Chapter 27

Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign,² and he reigned¹ sixteen ⁶²⁴⁰ years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

And he did⁴ [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did:¹ howbeit he entered¹ not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.⁵⁶

He built¹ the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel ⁶⁰⁷⁶ he built¹ much.

Moreover he built¹ cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built¹ castles and towers.

He fought⁸ also with the king of the Ammonites, ⁵⁹⁸³ and prevailed⁴ against them. And the children of Ammon gave⁴ 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 pay⁵² unto him, both the second year, and the third.

So Jotham became mighty,¹⁰¹ because he prepared⁵² his ways before the LORD his God.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they [are] written⁷ in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign,² and reigned¹ sixteen ⁶²⁴⁰ years in Jerusalem.

And Jotham slept⁴ with his fathers, and they buried⁴ him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned⁴ in his stead.