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| 27:1 |
Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeru'shah the daughter of Zadok.
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| 27:2 |
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done -- only he did not invade the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.
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| 27:3 |
He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did much building on the wall of Ophel.
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| 27:4 |
Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.
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| 27:5 |
He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.
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| 27:6 |
So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
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| 27:7 |
Now 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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| 27:8 |
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
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| 27:9 |
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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