• Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

  • 1 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.
  • 2 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.
  • 3 He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and he built the wall of Ophel extensively.
  • 4 Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.
  • 5 He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that during that year the Ammonites gave him a hundred talents of silver, 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.
  • 6 So Jotham became powerful because he directed his ways before the Lord his God.
  • 7 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.
  • 8 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for sixteen years.
  • 9 And Jotham lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place.