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Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeru'shah the daughter of Zadok.
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done--only he did not invade the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.
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He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did much building on the wall of Ophel.
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Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.
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He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.
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So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
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Now 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.
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.