King James Version · full chapter
2 Chronicles 27
9 verses · King James Version
- 1Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:1
- 2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:2
- 3He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:3
- 4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:4
- 5He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:5
- 6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:6
- 7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:7
- 8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:8
- 9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.Compare translations of 2 Chronicles 27:9