Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerushah, daughter of Zadok.
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And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still acted corruptly.
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It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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And he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
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And he fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame 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. This the children
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And Jotham became strong, for he prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.
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And 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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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
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And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
