2Chr 27
1
Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc.
2
And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father
had done, only that he entered not into the temple of the Lord, and the people still
transgressed.
3
He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built
much.
4
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.
5
Ho fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them, and the children
of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures
of wheat, and as many measures of barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him
in the second and third year.
6
And Joatham was strengthened, be- cause he had his way directed before the Lord his
God.
7
Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written
in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.
8
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem.
9
And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and
Achaz his son reigned in his stead.