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Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. |
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzziah had done -- only he did not invade the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices. |
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He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did much building on the wall of Ophel. |
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Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills. |
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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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So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God. |
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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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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. |
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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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