2 Chronicles 27 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

(2Ki 15:32–38 )

2Ch 27:1Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

2Ch 27:2

2Ch 27:2And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet corruptly.

2Ch 27:3

2Ch 27:3He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

2Ch 27:4

2Ch 27:4Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

2Ch 27:5

2Ch 27:5He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render unto him, in the second year also, and in the third.

2Ch 27:6

2Ch 27:6So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.

2Ch 27:7

2Ch 27:7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2Ch 27:8

2Ch 27:8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2Ch 27:9

2Ch 27:9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

2 Chronicles 27 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

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