1Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
2He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done — only he did not enter the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly.
3He built the Upper Gate of the house of Yahweh, and he built extensively on the wall of the Ophel.
4He built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.
5He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them, and the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. This the Ammonites paid to him, also in the second year and the third.
6So Jotham grew strong, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.
7Now 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.
8He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9And Jotham lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
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