2 Chronicles 27 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

(2Ki 15:32–38 )

2Ch 27:1Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeru'shah the daughter of Zadok.

2Ch 27:2

2Ch 27:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done--only he did not invade the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.

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2Ch 27:3He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did much building on the wall of Ophel.

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2Ch 27:4Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.

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2Ch 27:5He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

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

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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.

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

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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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Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

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