27 1 Jotham reigned, and overcometh the Ammonites. 8 His reign and death. 9 Ahaz his son reigneth in his stead.

Jotham (A)was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

And he did uprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did, save that he entered not into the [a]Temple of the Lord, and the people did yet [b]corrupt their ways.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 27:2 To wit, to offer incense against the word of God, which thing is spoken in the commendation of Jotham.
  2. 2 Chronicles 27:2 They were not clean purged from idolatry.

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