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Jotham 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.
02 And 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.
03 He built the high gate of the house of the
Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
04 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of
Judah, and in the forests he built castles and
towers.
05 He 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.
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06 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared
his ways before the Lord his God.
07 Now 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.
08 He was five and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
09 And 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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