3
He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
4
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.
5
He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and third year.
6
And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God.
7
Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.
8
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9
And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.