Jotham Reigns in Judah 1Iotham was fiue and twentie yere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Ierushah the daughter of Zadok. 2And hee did vprightly in the sight of the Lorde according to all that his father Vzziah did, saue that hee entred not into the Temple of the Lorde, and the people did yet corrupt their wayes. 3He buylt the hie gate of the house of the Lord, and he buylt very much on the wal of the castle. 4Moreouer hee buylt cities in the mountaines of Iudah, and in the forests he buylt palaces and towres. 5And he fought with the King of the children of Ammon, & preuailed against them; the children of Ammon gaue him the same yere an hundreth talents of siluer, and ten thousande measures of wheate, & ten thousand of barley: this did the children of Ammon giue him both in the second yeere and the third. 6So Iotham became mightie because hee directed his way before the Lord his God. 7Concerning the rest of the acts of Iotham, & all his warres & his wayes, loe, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel, and Iudah. 8He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem. 9And Iotham slept with his fathers, & they buryed him in the citie of Dauid: and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his stead. |