2 Chronicles 27 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

(2Ki 15:32–38 )

2Ch 27:1Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2Ch 27:2

2Ch 27:2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

2Ch 27:3

2Ch 27:3He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

2Ch 27:4

2Ch 27:4In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

2Ch 27:5

2Ch 27:5He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

2Ch 27:6

2Ch 27:6So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

2Ch 27:7

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

2Ch 27:8

2Ch 27:8He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

2Ch 27:9

2Ch 27:9And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

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2 Chronicles 27 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

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