2 Kings 15:32-38

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Jotham over Judah

³²In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of ^[a]Uzziah king of Judah became king. ³³^(A)He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. ³⁴^(B)He did what was right in the sight of the Lord; he acted in accordance with everything that his father Uzziah had done. ³⁵Only ^(C)the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ^(D)He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord. ³⁶Now as for the rest of the acts of Jotham which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ³⁷In those days ^(E)the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah. ³⁸And Jotham ^[b]lay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place.

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2 Kings 15:32 I.e., Azariah
2 Kings 15:38 I.e., died

2 Chronicles 27

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Jotham Succeeds Uzziah in Judah

27 ^(A)Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. ²He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; ^(B)however he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people continued acting corruptly. ³He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and he built the wall of ^(C)Ophel extensively. ⁴Moreover, he built ^(D)cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills. ⁵He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that during that year the Ammonites gave him ^[a]a hundred talents of silver, ^[b]ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second year and in the third. ⁶^(E)So Jotham became powerful because he directed his ways before the Lord his God. ⁷^(F)Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸He was ^(G)twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for sixteen years. ⁹And Jotham ^[c]lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place.