CHAPTER 27

¹Twenty-five years old was Jotham when he became king, and sixteen years he was king in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok. ²And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD as all that Uzziah his father had done, only he did not come into the LORD’s Temple, and the people were still acting ruinously. ³He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he built extensively on the wall of the Ophel. ⁴And towns did he build in the hill country of Judah, and in the woods he built forts and towers. ⁵And he battled with the kings of the Ammonites and prevailed over them, and the Ammonites gave him in that year a hundred talents of silver and ten thousand kors of wheat and ten thousand kors of barley. This did the Ammonites bring back to him, and also in the second and third year. ⁶And Jotham grew strong, for he made his ways firm before the LORD his God. ⁷And the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his battles and his ways, look, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸Twenty-five years old he was when he became king, and sixteen years he was king in Jerusalem. ⁹And Jotham lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. And Ahaz his son was king in his stead.