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1 Jotham [was] twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name [was] Jerushah, daughter of Zadok.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; but he went not into the temple of the Lord. And still the people corrupted themselves.
3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.
4 In the mountain of Judah, and in the woods, [he built] both dwelling places and towers.
5 He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against him. And the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver each year, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand [measures] of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon brought to him annually.
6 So Jotham grew strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
7 And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and his war, and his deeds, behold, [they are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
8 [This translation omits this verse.]
9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
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