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¹ Yotam was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Yerusha the daughter of Tzadok. ² He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father `Uzziyah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of the LORD. The people did yet corruptly. <sup>3</sup> He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of `Ofel he built much. ⁴ Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Yehudah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. ⁵ He fought also with the king of the children of `Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of `Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of `Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third. ⁶ So Yotam became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God. ⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Yotam, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisra'el and Yehudah. ⁸ He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim. ⁹ Yotam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his place.