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1 {Joathan, see 2 Ch 26:21} Joatham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusa, daughter of Sadoc.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Ozias did: but he went not into the temple of the Lord. And still the people corrupted themselves.
3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and he built much in the wall of Opel.
4 {Alex. +'and he built cities'} In the mountain of Juda, and in the woods, he built both dwelling-places and towers.
5 He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against him: and the children of Ammon gave him even annually a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand {Gr. cors, the Heb. word} measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon brought to him annually in the first and second and third years.
6 Joatham grew strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
7 And the rest of the acts of Joatham, and his war, and his deeds, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
8 {Alex. And he reigned twenty-five years, and sixteen years he reigned in Jerusalem.}
9 And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.