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¹ Jotham was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.² And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah did; only, he did not come into the temple of Jehovah; and the people continued to do wickedly.³ He built the Upper Gate of the house of Jehovah, and he built very much in the wall of Ophel;⁴ and he built cities in the hills of Judah, and in the forests he built palaces and towers.⁵ He also fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevailed over them. And the sons of Ammon gave to him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley; this the sons of Ammon turned over to him in the second year and in the third.⁶ And Jotham made himself strong, for he had prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.⁷ And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.⁸ He was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.⁹ And Jotham lay with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.