2 Chronicles 27
About 2 Chronicles 2 Chronicles retells the history of Judah's kings from Solomon to the exile, with a focus on the temple.
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.Selected2 Chronicles 27:1Ask
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.Selected2 Chronicles 27:2Ask
3He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.Selected2 Chronicles 27:3Ask
4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.Selected2 Chronicles 27:4Ask
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.Selected2 Chronicles 27:5Ask
6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.Selected2 Chronicles 27:6Ask
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.Selected2 Chronicles 27:7Ask
8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.Selected2 Chronicles 27:8Ask
9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.Selected2 Chronicles 27:9Ask
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