27:1 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.
27:2 He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people continued acting corruptly.
27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and he built the wall of Ophel extensively.
27:4 Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.
27:5 He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that during that year the Ammonites gave him ①a hundred talents of silver, ②ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second year and in the third.
▷ ①About 3.75 tons or 3.4 metric tons ②About 77,000 cubic feet or 2,180 cubic meters
27:6 So Jotham became powerful because he directed his ways before the LORD his God.
27:7 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.
27:8 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for sixteen years.
27:9 And Jotham ①lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place.
▷ ①I.e., died