| Chapter 27 |
1 | A son of twenty and five years [is] Jotham in his reigning, and sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jerushah daughter of Zadok.
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2 | And he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Uzziah his father did; only, he hath not come in unto the temple of Jehovah; and again are the people doing corruptly.
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3 | He hath built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and in the wall of Ophel he hath built abundantly;
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4 | and cities he hath built in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he hath built palaces and towers.
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5 | And he hath fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevaileth over them, and the sons of Ammon give to him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat, and of barley ten thousand; this have the sons of Ammon returned to him both in the second year, and in the third.
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6 | And Jotham doth strengthen himself, for he hath prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.
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7 | And the rest of the matters of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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8 | A son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;
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9 | and Jotham lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign doth Ahaz his son in his stead.
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