4
And he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5
And he fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame 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. This the children of Ammon brought again to him also in the second year, and in the third.
6
And Jotham became strong, for he prepared his ways before Jehovah his God.
7
And 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.
8
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
This chapter treats of the reign of Jotham, which was a good one, 2Ch 27:1,2, of his buildings and wars, 2Ch 27:3-6, and of his death and burial, 2Ch 27:7-9.
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Heb. cors. * A cor is a liquid and a dry measure of equal capacity to the homer: it equals 10 ephahs or baths -- see 1Kings 4.22; Ezek. 45.11,14; and Luke 16.7.