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Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. |
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He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people continued acting corruptly. |
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He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and he built the wall of Ophel extensively. |
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Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills. |
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He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that during that year the Ammonites gave him [296]a hundred talents of silver, [297]ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second year and in the third. |
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So Jotham became powerful because he directed his ways before the LORD his God. |
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Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, 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 became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for sixteen years. |
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And Jotham [298]lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place. |
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