1Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem : and his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok . 2And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah , according to all that his father Uzziah had done : howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah . And the people did yet corruptly . 3He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah , and on the wall of Ophel he built much . 4Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah , and in the forests he built castles and towers . 5He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon , and prevailed against them . And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver , and ten thousand measures of wheat , and ten thousand of barley . So much did the children of Ammon render unto him , in the second year also , and in the third . 6So Jotham became mighty , because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God .
Jotham's Faithfulness and Prosperity
7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham , and all his wars , and his ways , behold , they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah . 8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign , and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem . 9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David : and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead .