2 Chronicles 27 :: King James Version (KJV)

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. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2Ch 27:2

2Ch 27:2And 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.

2Ch 27:3

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

2Ch 27:4

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

2Ch 27:5

2Ch 27:5He 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.

2Ch 27:6

2Ch 27:6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

2Ch 27:7

2Ch 27:7Now 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.

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.

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2 Chronicles 27 :: King James Version (KJV)

Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

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